Abstract
Active polymers play a central role in many biological systems, from
bacterial flagella to cellular cytoskeletons. Minimal models of semiflexible
active filaments have been used to study a variety of interesting phenomena in
active systems, such as defect dynamics in active nematics, clustering and
laning in motility assays, and conformational properties of chromatin in
eukaryotic cells. In this paper, we map a semiflexible polymer to an exactly
solvable active Rouse chain, which enables us to analytically compute
configurational and dynamical properties of active polymers with arbitrary
rigidity.