Closed ideal planar curves

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.1019MaRDI QIDQ2004518zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ben Andrews, Glen Wheeler, Valentina-Mira Wheeler, James McCoy

Publication date 7 October 2020

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06154

zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvaturecurvature flowgeometric evolution equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: In this paper we use a gradient flow to deform closed planar curves to curves with least variation of geodesic curvature in the $L^2$ sense. Given a smooth initial curve we show that the solution to the flow exists for all time and, provided the length of the evolving curve remains bounded, smoothly converges to a multiply-covered circle. Moreover, we show that curves in any homotopy class with initially small $L^{3}lVert{k}_{s}Ver{t}_2^2$ enjoy a uniform length bound under the flow, yielding the convergence result in these cases.

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