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A Short Note on Contracting Self-Similar Solutions of the Curve Shortening Flow

Differential Geometry 2015-07-01 v1

Abstract

By the curve shortening flow, the only closed embedded contracting self-similar solutions are circles: we give a very short and intuitive geometric proof of this basic and classical result using an idea of Gage.

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@article{arxiv.1506.09052,
  title  = {A Short Note on Contracting Self-Similar Solutions of the Curve Shortening Flow},
  author = {Lucas Z. Veeravalli and Emma H. Veeravalli and Alain R. Veeravalli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.09052},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures