Lemniscates do not survive Laplace growth

DOI10.4310/MRL.2010.V17.N2.A12MaRDI QIDQ2275698zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 9 August 2011

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2129

zbMATH Keywords

fluid movementPolubarinova-Galin equationpolynomial lemniscates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conformal mappings of special domains (30C20) Moving boundary problems for PDEs (35R37) Other free boundary flows; Hele-Shaw flows (76D27)

Abstract: The large class of moving boundary processes in the plane modeled by the so-called Laplacian growth, which describes, e.g., solidification, electrodeposition, viscous fingering, bacterial growth, etc., is known to be integrable and to exhibit a large number of exact solutions. In this work, the boundaries are assumed to be in the class of lemniscates with all zeros inside the bounded component of the complex plane. We prove that for any initial boundary taken from this class, the evolving boundary instantly stops being in the class, or else Laplacian growth destroys lemniscates instantly.

Review text

The Polubarinova-Galin equation models the movement of the boundary between two fluids in the plane when a sink or source is present. (For background material see [\textit{B. Gustafsson} and \textit{A. Vasil'ev}, Conformal and potential analysis in Hele-Shaw cells. Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics. Basel: Birkhäuser (2006; Zbl 1122.76002)].) In the present paper it is shown that the only polynomial lemniscates moving under this process of Laplacian growth (in fact, under a somewhat larger class of processes which are invariant under time reversal) are concentric circles.

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(8)

• Lemniscate growth
• On the exponential transform of lemniscates
• Integrability-preserving regularizations of Laplacian growth
• On the geometry of random lemniscates
• On the dynamics of roots and poles for solutions of the Polubarinova-Galin equation
• Laplacian Growth on Branched Riemann Surfaces
• Quadrature for quadrics
• Inradius of random lemniscates

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