Uniformly compressing mean curvature flow

DOI10.1007/S12220-018-00104-ZzbMATH Open1446.53078arXiv1711.03864OpenAlexW2963502193WikidataQ126110863 ScholiaQ126110863MaRDI QIDQ2332267FDOQ2332267

Authors: Wenhui Shi, Dmitry Vorotnikov 

Publication date: 4 November 2019

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a related geometric flow which is free of these drawbacks. Our flow can be viewed as a formal gradient flow on a certain submanifold of the Wasserstein space of probability measures endowed with Otto's Riemannian structure. We obtain a number of analytic results concerning well-posedness and long-time stability which are however restricted to the 1D case of evolution of loops.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03864

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zbMATH Keywords

volumeoptimal transportgradient flowevolving surfaceinfinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems (35K45) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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