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A delayed interior area-to-height estimate for the Curve Shortening Flow

Analysis of PDEs 2026-04-02 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The principle of delayed parabolic regularity for the Curve Shortening Flow - that if two evolving curves bound a region of area A\mathcal A, then, starting from time A/π{\mathcal A}/\pi, the regularity of one curve is controllable in terms of the time elapsed, the area A\mathcal A and the regularity of the other curve - was proposed by Topping & the author in (Sobnack & Topping, 2024), where they also provided a number of graphical situations in which their delayed regularity framework is valid. In this paper, we generalise some of the results in (Sobnack & Topping, 2024) within the graphical setting, ultimately by showing that there holds an interior graphical estimate for the Curve Shortening Flow in the spirit of the proposed framework. We also provide a few applications of our estimate, such as the existence of Graphical Curve Shortening Flows starting weakly from Radon measures without point masses.

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@article{arxiv.2502.16581,
  title  = {A delayed interior area-to-height estimate for the Curve Shortening Flow},
  author = {Arjun Sobnack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16581},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

32 pages, 4 figures. Updated version 2. To appear in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems