Asymptotic behaviour of self-contracted planar curves and gradient orbits of convex functions

DOI10.1016/J.MATPUR.2010.03.007zbMATH Open1201.37023arXiv0809.0150OpenAlexW3103556354MaRDI QIDQ987849FDOQ987849

Olivier Ley, Stéphane Sabourau, A. Daniilidis

Publication date: 16 August 2010

Published in: Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We hereby introduce and study the notion of self-contracted curves, which encompasses orbits of gradient systems of convex and quasiconvex functions. Our main result shows that bounded self-contracted planar curves have a finite length. We also give an example of a convex function defined in the plane whose gradient orbits spiral infinitely many times around the unique minimum of the function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0150

zbMATH Keywords

planar dynamical systemsLojasiewicz inequalitygradient trajectoriesconvex and quasiconvex functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D20) Gradient-like behavior; isolated (locally maximal) invariant sets; attractors, repellers for topological dynamical systems (37B35) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Convex sets in (2) dimensions (including convex curves) (52A10) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20)

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