A length-constrained ideal curve flow

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAB050MaRDI QIDQ5083127zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glen Wheeler, Yuhan Wu, James McCoy

Publication date 21 June 2022

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

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

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)

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.

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