The shape of a figure-eight under the curve shortening flow

DOI10.1007/BF01393973zbMath0669.53003OpenAlexW2039252190WikidataQ57535362 ScholiaQ57535362MaRDI QIDQ1118821

Matthew A. Grayson

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143675

zbMATH Keywords

curve shortening flowisoperimetric ratiofigure-eight curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04)

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Cites Work

• An isoperimetric inequality with applications to curve shortening
• Curve shortening makes convex curves circular
• The normalized curve shortening flow and homothetic solutions
• The heat equation shrinking convex plane curves
• The heat equation shrinks embedded plane curves to round points
• Shortening embedded curves
• A stable manifold theorem for the curve shortening equation
• The zero set of a solution of a parabolic equation.

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