Evolution of closed curves by length-constrained curve diffusion

DOI10.1090/PROC/14473MaRDI QIDQ5223180zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glen Wheeler, Yuhan Wu, James McCoy

Publication date 17 July 2019

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07128

zbMATH Keywords

curvature flowcurve diffusion flowdifferential geometry of plane curveshigher-order quasilinear partial differential equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: We show that any initial closed curve suitably close to a circle flows under length-constrained curve diffusion to a round circle in infinite time with exponential convergence. We provide an estimate on the total length of time for which such curves are not strictly convex. We further show that there are no closed translating solutions to the flow and that the only closed rotators are circles.

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