Soliton Solutions to the Curve Shortening Flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic plane

DOI10.4171/RMI/1343MaRDI QIDQ6358632arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Fábio Nunes da Silva, Keti Tenenblat

Publication date 19 January 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/RMI/1343

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Flows on surfaces (37E35) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

arXiv classification

math.DG

Abstract: We show that a curve is a soliton solution to the curve shortening flow if and only if its geodesic curvature can be written as the inner product between its tangent vector field and a fixed vector of the 3-dimensional Minkowski space. We use this characterization to provide a qualitative study of the solitons. We show that for each fixed vector there is a 2-parameter family of soliton solutions to the curve shortening flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic space. Moreover, we prove that each soliton is defined on the entire real line, it is embedded and its geodesic curvature converges to a constant at each end.

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