On the curve diffusion flow of closed plane curves

DOI10.1007/S10231-012-0253-2zbMATH Open1277.53068arXiv1201.3735OpenAlexW2019467914MaRDI QIDQ380403FDOQ380403

Authors: Glen Wheeler 

Publication date: 13 November 2013

Published in: Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the steepest descent $H^{-1}$-gradient flow of the length functional for immersed plane curves, known as the curve diffusion flow. It is known that under this flow there exist both initially immersed curves which develop at least one singularity in finite time and initially embedded curves which self-intersect in finite time. We prove that under the flow closed curves with initial data close to a round circle in the sense of normalised $L^2$ oscillation of curvature exist for all time and converge exponentially fast to a round circle. This implies that for a sufficiently large `waiting time' the evolving curves are strictly convex. We provide an optimal estimate for this waiting time, which gives a quantified feeling for the magnitude to which the maximum principle fails. We are also able to control the maximum of the multiplicity of the curve along the evolution. A corollary of this estimate is that initially embedded curves satisfying the hypotheses of the global existence theorem remain embedded. Finally, as an application we obtain a rigidity statement for closed planar curves with winding number one.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3735

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zbMATH Keywords

geometric evolution equationscurve diffusion flowdifferential geometry of plane curveshigher-order quasilinear partial differential equationssurface diffusion flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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