First interpret the surface integral through the given parametric surface, counting multiplicity. Set
Its derivative is
Using part (c), the fundamental theorem of calculus gives
On the other hand part (d), including its arc length factor, gives
and the corresponding expression for is . Subtraction proves
If , the parametric surface is injective on the rectangle, so this is exactly the stated surface integral over its image. It also remains the ordinary image integral at , since the repeated seam has zero surface area.
The assertion for arbitrary needs a multiplicity convention or the restriction . This omission is present in the native PDF. For example, take , , , . The image is the entire cylindrical band , since already covers a full turn. Its ordinary surface integral of Gaussian curvature is
But the difference of the two signed geodesic curvature integrals is . Thus ordinary integration over the image set makes the unrestricted assertion false. The boxed parameter integral is valid for all and and is the appropriate corrected statement. This distinction is the multiplicity of a parametrized surface integral.
This is a scalar surface integral, not an oriented flux. Split the whole closed surface into the bottom disc, curved side and tilted top; shared edge curves have zero surface area.
On the bottom, and the integrand is . Its integral over the symmetric disc vanishes by oddness:
On the top, , so . The graph has , , giving . Hence
For the side, let and parametrize by , with . The surface area element is . Thus
Adding all three pieces gives
The tilted top remains above the bottom everywhere because . The calculation is an instance of a scalar surface integral over a cylinder with one tilted cap; reversing a surface orientation would not change any of its terms.
The solid angle is the intercepted surface area on a sphere of radius , divided by . Take the cone axis as the polar axis of spherical coordinates, and call its half-opening angle . With polar integration variable ,
For small measured in radians, the Taylor series of the cosine gives
This is the solid angle of a circular cone, measured in steradians.
The supplied angular diameter is twice the half-opening angle, so
Hence either apparent disc subtends
The fraction is about of the entire celestial sphere. Using the angular diameter directly in would give four times the correct small-angle answer.
For this vector field,
The divergence theorem and spherical coordinates therefore give the outward flux
The dependence also follows by combining the cubic field magnitude with the quadratic scaling of surface area.
The divergence theorem states that, for a bounded region with piecewise smooth boundary , outward unit normal vector , and a continuously differentiable vector field on a neighborhood of ,
The outward orientation fixes the sign of the flux.
On the sphere of radius , the outward unit normal vector is . Thus . Multiplying by the surface area gives
For the second calculation, use the product rule in Cartesian coordinates:
The field remains continuously differentiable at the origin when . Indeed, for its Jacobian matrix entries are , all tending to zero as ; its derivative at zero is also zero because . The divergence theorem therefore applies to the entire ball. In spherical coordinates, it yields
in agreement with the direct surface integral.
The material derivative follows surfactant carried by the moving interface. Tangential surface divergence changes the local surface area and hence dilutes or concentrates insoluble material. Normal motion changes area through the curvature: an expanding sphere has positive and its concentration decreases. The last term is surface diffusion, which smooths concentration gradients. There is no exchange with the bulk; this is conservation of insoluble surfactant on a moving interface.
The interfacial speed is of order . Diffusion dominates redistribution when the surface Péclet number satisfies
Then , and advection of is a second-order effect. Write . Since , the projected divergence of the first term is , whereas the second has divergence ; its gradient contracted with is zero. Hence .
The leading steady transport equation is . Trace-freeness and the supplied surface Laplacian identity give . Fixing the conserved total surfactant removes the uniform null mode and yields
This is quadrupolar surfactant distribution on a spherical interface; its spherical mean is zero because .
With outside, inside, and the normal directed out of the bubble, the interfacial stress balance with variable surface tension is
Now , so . Multiplying the curvature by the tension and retaining linear terms gives
The undeformed isotropic pressure jump is kept with its normal; the perturbation terms are evaluated on the reference sphere. Products of deformation and concentration perturbations are beyond the approximation.
The imposed tensor is symmetric and traceless, so is a harmonic scalar of degree two. Its decaying partner is ; the corresponding harmonic vector uses . Linearity and rotational symmetry give precisely these tensorial modes, with the growing scalar chosen to reproduce the imposed strain. Thus in the unscaled convention one can take
The coefficients multiply distinct decaying modes. No other angular harmonic is forced at this order.
No penetration in the steady state gives . The given tangential surface velocity implies . The tangential stress balance, with , gives , or . Therefore
The nonuniform normal stress is unaffected by the uniform inviscid interior pressure. Its balance is
Substitution and rearrangement give
As , : the concentration-induced Marangoni stress suppresses tangential surface motion, making the exterior boundary behave like an immobile surface despite the inviscid interior. The deformation coefficient tends to ; the clean limit is . Both small surface Péclet number and small deformation, of order , are required. This is Marangoni immobilization of a bubble in straining flow.
On the sphere, both cosmic time and the comoving coordinate are constant. The positive spatial induced metric obtained from the FLRW metric is therefore . Its area element is the square root of its determinant:
Integrating over the spherical coordinates gives
Thus is the areal radius. In a curved spatial slice it need not equal the proper radial distance ; the angular part of the FLRW metric, rather than a Euclidean radial-distance assumption, establishes the surface area.
The material derivative follows surfactant carried by the moving interface. The term is dilution or concentration by tangential area expansion or contraction. The term is the additional area change produced by normal motion of a curved interface. The term represents surface diffusion, while relaxes the concentration towards a reservoir value through exchange. All these terms refer to concentration per surface area, as in surfactant transport with exchange relaxation.
In the steady bubble frame, the spherical interface has . Write with uniform and regard both and as first order in the rising speed. Advection of and its product with surface dilation are second order. Hence the linear steady equation is
Spherical symmetry and linearity leave only the tangential projection of the imposed translation vector: . An azimuthal term would change sign under reflection and is excluded for this non-chiral rising bubble. The degree-one forcing does not excite other spherical-harmonic degrees in the linear problem.
On , differentiating gives
Each component of is a degree-one spherical harmonic, so
One may also obtain the coefficient from : its surface Laplacian gives , while rotational symmetry makes the vector Laplacian parallel to . Expanding then yields
The candidate therefore solves the linear transport equation if
Its spherical mean is zero. This is the dipolar surfactant distribution. Assuming , its consistency condition is
Diffusion or exchange must restore uniform concentration faster than the interfacial flow redistributes it: this holds with a small surface Péclet number, fast exchange, or sufficiently immobilized surface velocity. These same conditions justify neglecting the perturbation's advection. Small capillary number and sufficiently small buoyancy-induced shape distortion are separate requirements for a spherical interface.
Take to mean the outer liquid, the bubble interior and outward from the bubble. The general interfacial stress balance with variable surface tension is
For , its tangential part is . Thus the requested form is
This positive parameter measures the strength of the restoring Marangoni stress relative to viscous stress, including the relaxation of concentration by diffusion and exchange.
The far velocity is produced by the constant harmonic vector potential . The two independent decaying degree-one modes are the force-carrying vector potential and the scalar dipole . They are harmonic outside the bubble and have precisely the symmetry of uniform translation. The Unscaled Papkovich–Neuber representation gives, at arbitrary radius,
The velocity at agrees with the printed expression. However, the original PDF's traction formula has a factor-of-two error. Direct differentiation with gives
not the printed prefactor . This is traction of translating-sphere Papkovich–Neuber potentials. The term follows immediately from the Stokeslet stress, and the scalar-potential part gives ; neither contribution contains the extra factor two.
With this consistent traction, no penetration requires , tangential velocity requires , and tangential stress balance requires . Solving,
For comparison, taking the printed literally would instead give
Those solve the supplied algebraic pair but not the Newtonian stress calculated from the supplied potentials. The factor-six result is the physically consistent translating surfactant-coated bubble solution.
As , and : the clean bubble has a mobile interface and zero tangential traction. As , , and : the interface becomes immobilized and the exterior flow approaches that past a no-slip rigid sphere. The limiting tangential traction is , a useful check on the correct normalization.
The normal dynamic traction is
apart from an arbitrary constant pressure. In the normal stress balance on a translating bubble, its degree-one part is balanced by the buoyant hydrostatic pressure difference and by the variation of normal capillary stress. A uniform internal gas pressure balances the constant Laplace-pressure term but cannot by itself balance this angular variation. If is upwards and is liquid minus bubble mass density, the degree-one balance can be written
It fixes , tending to the clean-bubble and rigid-sphere rise speeds. A degree-one radial displacement translates a sphere rather than changing its curvature, so a supposed dipolar shape distortion cannot replace this force balance.
Let and let the sphere have radius . By rotational invariance, condition on and place it at the north pole. A band at polar angle has surface area , while the sphere has area . Thus the central angle between independent uniform sphere points has density
with density zero outside that interval.
Condition now on with their angle fixed at . For and to be acute, the unit position vector of must have positive dot products with both unit vectors of and . Hence must lie in the intersection of the two corresponding open hemispheres. The great circles bounding them meet at the two antipodes perpendicular to the plane of . Their common hemisphere region is a spherical lune of opening : when it is a hemisphere of opening , and as the two normals separate, that opening decreases by . More explicitly, take the common boundary antipodes as poles. The longitude conditions each allow an interval of length , with their centres separated by , so the intersection has longitude width .
Integrating the spherical area element over that lune gives area . Thus the conditional probability that the two angles involving are acute is . The remaining angle must itself be acute, so the desired probability is
Integration by parts gives , while . Therefore
This calculates pairwise acute central angles of three uniform sphere points by conditional area, rather than incorrectly treating the three angle events as independent. Boundary right angles have probability zero, so choosing open rather than closed hemispheres does not change the result.
Take a long periodic section of length , or neglect end effects and choose an integer number of wavelengths. The amplitude here is a single real sine amplitude, fixing the normalization of the thermal membrane undulation spectrum. For a lipid vesicle with an axisymmetric membrane deformation, conservation of the enclosed volume gives
The mean radius therefore decreases at second order. This adjustment is essential: fixing the mean radius instead of the volume would miss the unstable term in the fixed-volume capillary spectrum of a cylindrical membrane.
The surface area of an axisymmetric graph is . Expanding for and gives
Multiplication by the membrane tension yields a quadratic potential energy , where
For , the equipartition theorem gives the stable-mode fixed-volume capillary spectrum of a cylindrical membrane
Here is the Boltzmann constant and is the temperature. The cosine amplitude has the same variance and is an independent real coordinate at quadratic order. If instead with , the corresponding positive- complex coefficient has . This is the same thermal membrane undulation spectrum in a different Fourier mode normalization.
For , the cylinder is unstable rather than having a negative fluctuation variance. The quadratic surface area change is negative: a sufficiently long-wavelength modulation reduces area while retaining volume. This is the Rayleigh–Plateau instability, expressed here as pearling of a tension-dominated lipid vesicle. A cylinder supporting such modes has no unconstrained harmonic thermal equilibrium about the uniform state. The uniform radius change is forbidden by fixed volume, and is marginal in the tension-only approximation. The finite length and endpoint constraints determine which nonzero Fourier modes are allowed.
The large membrane tension assumption controls modes with of order one. For large the omitted membrane bending modulus contribution grows approximately as and overtakes the tension term when . Thus the displayed tension-only spectrum requires as well as small amplitudes and a positive stiffness. Close enough to the marginal wavelength, bending corrections must also be retained; their relative scale at of order one is .
For the circular phase boundary in a lipid bilayer, the energy is its perimeter times the line tension . Let be the polar angle and write , where the periodicity requires an integer . Fixed enclosed area implies
The perimeter, including the mean-radius change, is
Thus the fixed-area capillary spectrum of a circular boundary, again for a single real sine or cosine amplitude, is
The complex Fourier mode coefficient convention again divides this result by two. The mode is excluded by the fixed-area constraint, so the negative-stiffness interval is not an allowed mode of a closed circular boundary.
At , the zero stiffness is the translation mode of a circular boundary, not a shape instability. Displacing the centre by a small distance changes the radius to first order by or while leaving area and perimeter unchanged. For example, an exactly translated circle has
The higher harmonics complete a true translation mode of a circular boundary. The denominator therefore represents free centre motion: an unconfined domain's centre has no restoring force or finite equilibrium variance in an infinite membrane. Radius fluctuations about a recentered domain omit this mode; external confinement would give it a separate restoring stiffness.
Let be the number of facets of the convex polytope . Its facet description can be written
Because , each supporting closed half-space has . For any , follow the ray to its last point in . Its radius is at most one because . At least one facet is active there, giving
Thus the unit sphere is covered by the spherical caps centred at with angular radius . Since , this radius lies in and the spherical cap area upper bound applies. Subadditivity of surface area gives
Using for ,
The facet lower bound for ball approximations is exponential in the dimension.
Normalize the surface area of the spherical cap by writing
Two elementary descriptions of a spherical cap are useful. The spherical polar coordinates formula gives
Projecting orthogonally onto the last coordinates gives
Indeed, the upper hemisphere is the graph , whose surface area factor is on . This establishes the upper projection bound directly.
Set . The supplied ratio bound implies for . Consequently, at ,
Also,
On , the expression in parentheses is strictly decreasing; it starts positive and ends negative. Thus first increases and then decreases, so its minimum on this interval is at an endpoint. Since , both endpoint values are nonnegative. The spherical cap area upper bound follows:
The material derivative follows the interfacial surfactant. The term describes dilution by tangential expansion and concentration by compression. The term accounts for changing surface area due to normal motion of a curved interface. Finally, describes surface diffusion. Together these give conservation of insoluble surfactant on a moving interface.
The relevant surface Péclet number is
Write and . Since has zero trace and , the surface divergence is
There is no normal motion. To first order in , the steady surfactant balance becomes . The traceless quadratic is a degree-two spherical harmonic, so . The mean of is zero by total surfactant conservation; consequently
The discarded advective term is smaller by . This is the quadrupolar surfactant distribution on a spherical interface.
With the unit normal directed from the bubble into the exterior, the interfacial stress balance with variable surface tension is
Using the specified first-order curvature and , together with , gives
The first term is the spherical capillary pressure; the last contains the normal tension correction and the tangential Marangoni stress.
The ambient Stokes flow has the symmetry of the symmetric traceless tensor . In the Unscaled Papkovich–Neuber representation, is harmonic and yields . The decaying vector potential must have the form , and the scalar disturbance must have the degree-two form . They are harmonic outside the bubble and have precisely the required rotational covariance. Dimensionless amplitudes may therefore be written
For a steady bubble, the no-penetration boundary condition gives . Its tangential velocity gives . The tangential stress boundary condition then yields
Hence , and . The inviscid interior supplies only the constant pressure balancing . Matching the remaining normal stress gives
Eliminating gives
As , : the Marangoni stress suppresses tangential motion and effectively immobilizes the interface. This limit must retain the small surface Péclet number and small-deformation assumptions; can grow through increasing without invalidating the linear concentration approximation.
Parametrize the finite cylindrical surface patch by
The surface area element is . The seam has zero surface area, so it causes no overcounting. Therefore
Unrolling the unit circular cylinder preserves surface area, which explains the equality with the area under the hyperbolic cosine in the figure. The patch consists of the cylindrical surface alone; no flat base is included.
For the surface area of a tricylinder, permutation symmetry shows that each of the three cylindrical surfaces contributes the same surface area to the boundary. On the face , put , . The remaining two inequalities require
so . The surface area element on this unit circular cylinder is . There are eight congruent angular sectors, with the minimum equal to for . Thus the area of this face is
Every boundary point lies on at least one of these three cylindrical surfaces; their pairwise intersections are curves of zero surface area. Adding the three faces therefore gives
For a bounded region with piecewise smooth boundary, suppose is a continuously differentiable vector field on an open neighbourhood of its closure. The divergence theorem, with outward unit normal vector , is
The surface integral measures total outward flux. Edges and isolated vertices have zero surface area and do not affect the integral.
The partial derivatives of the parametrization are
Their cross product is
Taking its euclidean norm gives the surface area element
The two poles and duplicated seam have zero surface area, so integrating over the stated parameter domain counts the surface area once. With the change of variables and the supplied definite integral,
Here because .
The partial derivatives of this parametrized surface are
Their cross product is
The mixed terms cancel in its squared Euclidean norm:
Since , the surface area element is . There is no repeated coverage: recovers , and then recovers . Therefore the surface area is
Let be the filled projected ellipse. The part of the plane bounded by is the parametrized surface
Its tangent vectors satisfy
The surface area is therefore
This also illustrates the orthogonal projection area formula: the unit normal to the plane has vertical component , so projection multiplies area by .
For a regular parametrized surface that covers its image once, up to sets of zero area, its surface area is
The integrand is the area element of a surface, the area of the small parallelogram spanned by the two tangent vectors. A parametrization that covers a region more than once counts that multiplicity; the geometric surface area requires a single covering or a division into nonoverlapping patches.