Convergence of a Crystalline Algorithm for the Motion of a Closed Convex Curve by a Power of Curvature $V=K^\alpha$ (Q4943630)

Let \(\Gamma_{0}\) be a smooth closed convex curve immersed in the plane \(\mathbb{R}^2\). The authors consider the moving boundary value problem of finding a family of closed curves \(\{ \Gamma(T)\} ,T\geq 0\) which satisfies \[ V(\Theta,t)\equiv K(\Theta,t)^{\alpha},\quad \Theta\in T_{\eta},\quad t\geq 0,\quad \Gamma(0)=\Gamma_{0}, \] where \(V\) is the inward normal component of the velocity of \(\Gamma(t)\) and \(K\) is the curvature with the sign convention that the curvature of a circle is positive. The parameter \(\Theta\) is the angle between the exterior normal and a fixed axis, \(\alpha\) is a positive real-valued parameter and \(t\) is often called time. The parameter \(\eta\geq 1\) is the winding number of \(\Gamma(t)\) and \(T_{\eta}:=R/2\eta\pi Z \). The functions \(V\) and \(K\) are \(2\eta\pi\)-periodic in \(\Theta\) since the curve \(\Gamma(t)\) is closed. This curve-evolution is discretized by the usage of a crystalline approximation which is a kind of finite difference scheme for the nonlinear evolution equation. Convergence of this scheme is proved and its rate is investigated. Numerical examples are presented.