The gradient flow of the potential energy on the space of arcs

DOI10.1007/S00526-019-1524-1MaRDI QIDQ670705zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wenhui Shi, Dmitry Vorotnikov

Publication date 20 March 2019

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.00747

zbMATH Keywords

gradient flowgeneralized solutiongeodesicspotential energynonlinear evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E99)

Abstract: We study the gradient flow of the potential energy on the infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold of spatial curves parametrized by the arc length, which models overdamped motion of a falling inextensible string. We prove existence of generalized solutions to the corresponding nonlinear evolutionary PDE and their exponential decay to the equilibrium. We also observe that the system admits solutions backwards in time, which leads to non-uniqueness of trajectories.

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