Anisotropic curvature flow of immersed curves (Q2328026)

In this paper we consider the anisotropic curvature motion for planar immersed curves. More precisely, given an initial curve \(u_{0}:S^{1}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{2}\) and a norm \(\varphi \) on \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\), which we call \textit{anisotropy}, we show existence of a family \(u(t;x)\) of curves satisfying the evolution equation \[ u_{t}^{\bot }=\varphi ^{o}\left( \nu \right) \kappa _{\varphi }\nu , \] where \(u_{t}^{\bot }\) is the normal component of the velocity \(u_{t}\), \(\nu \) is the Euclidean normal vector to the support of \(u\), \(\varphi ^{o}\) is the dual norm of \(\varphi \), and \(\kappa _{\varphi }\) denotes the anisotropic curvature. In particular, we prove a short time existence result which holds for any anisotropy \(\varphi \), under a natural regularity assumption on the initial datum.