Sharp entropy bounds for plane curves and dynamics of the curve shortening flow

DOI10.4310/CAG.2023.V31.N3.A3arXiv1808.03936MaRDI QIDQ6179945FDOQ6179945

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Publication date: 18 January 2024

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that a closed immersed plane curve with total curvature $2pim$ has entropy at least $m$ times the entropy of the embedded circle, as long as it generates a type I singularity under the curve shortening flow (CSF). We construct closed immersed plane curves of total curvature $2pim$ whose entropy is less than $m$ times the entropy of the embedded circle. As an application, we extend Colding-Minicozzi's notion of a generic mean curvature flow to closed immersed plane curves by constructing a piecewise CSF whose only singularities are embedded circles and type II singularities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.03936

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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