A length-constrained ideal curve flow

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAB050zbMATH Open1497.53148arXiv2012.10022OpenAlexW3215776326MaRDI QIDQ5083127FDOQ5083127

Glen Wheeler, Yuhan Wu, James McCoy

Publication date: 21 June 2022

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A recent article by the first two authors together with B Andrews and V-M Wheeler considered the so-called `ideal curve flow', a sixth order curvature flow that seeks to deform closed planar curves to curves with least variation of total geodesic curvature in the $L^2$ sense. Critical in the analysis there was a length bound on the evolving curves. It is natural to suspect therefore that the length-constrained ideal curve flow should permit a more straightforward analysis, at least in the case of small initial `energy'. In this article we show this is indeed the case, with suitable initial data providing a flow that exists for all time and converges smoothly and exponentially to a multiply-covered round circle of the same length and winding number as the initial curve.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10022

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zbMATH Keywords

lengthwinding numbersixth-order curvature flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Mathematical biology in general (92B99) Higher-order geometric flows (53E40)

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