On the H^1 (ds^)-gradient flow for the length functional

DOI10.1007/S12220-023-01305-XMaRDI QIDQ6163855zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Philip Schrader, Glen Wheeler, Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Publication date 26 July 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07305

zbMATH Keywords

curve shortening flowSobolev gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: In this article we consider the length functional defined on the space of immersed planar curves. The $L^2(ds)$ Riemannian metric gives rise to the curve shortening flow as the gradient flow of the length functional. Motivated by the triviality of the metric topology in this space, we consider the gradient flow of the length functional with respect to the $H^1(ds)$-metric. Circles with radius $r_0$ shrink with $r(t)=sqrtW(e^{c-2t})$ under the flow, where $W$ is the Lambert $W$ function and $c=r_0^2+log{r}_0^2$. We conduct a thorough study of this flow, giving existence of eternal solutions and convergence for general initial data, preservation of regularity in various spaces, qualitative properties of the flow after an appropriate rescaling, and numerical simulations.

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