Whitney-Graustein homotopy of locally convex curves via a curvature flow

DOI10.4310/MRL.2023.V30.N4.A3MaRDI QIDQ6131207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Laiyuan Gao

Publication date 4 April 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07342

zbMATH Keywords

elastic energywinding numbercurvature flowWhitney-Graustein theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Curves in Euclidean and related spaces (53A04) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: Let $X_0,widetildeX$ be two smooth, closed and locally convex curves in the plane with same winding number. A curvature flow with a nonlocal term is constructed to evolve $X_0$ into $widetildeX$. It is proved that this flow exits globally, preserves both the local convexity and the elastic energy of the evolving curve. If the two curves have same elastic energy then the curvature flow deforms the evolving curve into the target curve $widetildeX$ as time tends to infinity.

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