Curve shortening in a Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1007/s10231-006-0025-yzbMath1175.53075arXivmath/0312463OpenAlexW2077218819WikidataQ115385093 ScholiaQ115385093MaRDI QIDQ2462193

De Zhong Chen, Li Ma

Publication date: 26 November 2007

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0312463

zbMATH Keywords

Closed geodesicCurve shortening flowGlobal flowLyusternik-Fet theoremRamp flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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