Stationary solutions of the curvature preserving flow on space curves (Q2025606)

The paper deals with a geometric flow of immersed curves in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) with positive torsion. The evolution equation is given by \(X_t=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\tau}}B\), where \(\tau\) is the torsion and \(B\) the unit binormal vector. The author proves that this is the only flow for space curves which is curvature and arc-length preserving and that it is equivalent to the \(m^2KDV\) equation. In the case of constant curvature curves, all stationary solutions to the geometric flow are obtained. Finally, the linearization of the evolution equation for the torsion around explicit stationary solutions is derived and the \(L^2(\mathbb{R})\) stability of the linearization for the case of helices is proven.