2008/04/30 by François Englert, Kasper Peeters, Anne Taormina
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Chemistry · Engineering · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Bacteriophages and microbial interactions #Biology #Capsid #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Crystallography #Flexibility (engineering) #Icosahedral symmetry #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Physics #Plant Virus Research Studies #Plateau (mathematics) #Statistical physics #Statistics #Vibration and Dynamic Analysis #Virology #Virus #q-bio.BM
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.78.031908
published as Phys. Rev. E 78 (2008) 031908 · 5 pages, 4 figures; v2: improved presentation, version published in Phys. Rev. E
openalex publication_date 2008/09/10 · arxiv created 2008/09/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Group theoretical arguments combined with normal mode analysis techniques are applied to a coarse-grained approximation of icosahedral viral capsids which incorporates areas of variable flexibility. This highlights a remarkable structure of the low-frequency spectrum in this approximation, namely, the existence of a plateau of 24 near zero modes with universal group theory content.