Preprint
Oct 2026
Discontinuous buckling from cytoplasmic mechanics in vertex models of epithelia
Simulation results underline how cell-scale mechanics beyond the cortex and cell adhesion can change emergent, tissue-scale behaviour even qualitatively and explain this reentrant behaviour in terms of the tricritical points of a sixth-order Landau theory.
Chandraniva Guha Ray, Pierre A. Haas
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