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A survey of the elastic flow of curves and networks

Analysis of PDEs 2023-03-30 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We collect and present in a unified way several results in recent years about the elastic flow of curves and networks, trying to draw the state of the art of the subject. In particular, we give a complete proof of global existence and smooth convergence to critical points of the solution of the elastic flow of closed curves in R2\mathbb{R}^2. In the last section of the paper we also discuss a list of open problems.

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@article{arxiv.2009.12870,
  title  = {A survey of the elastic flow of curves and networks},
  author = {Carlo Mantegazza and Alessandra Pluda and Marco Pozzetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.12870},
  year   = {2023}
}