Motion by curvature of planar curves with end points moving freely on a line (Q540422)

The following problem is studied: determine families of curves in the upper half-plane that meet the \(x\)-axis in their endpoints at constant angles and evolve by curvature motion. The authors investigate this problem from an analytic point of view, providing an existence and uniqueness result for self-similar solutions (Theorem 3) and studying the asymptotic behaviour. In particular, they show that the curves shrink to a point in a self-similar manner when the initial curve is a graph (Theorem 5) and they investigate eventual concavity (Section 4.4).