Ancient curve shortening flow in the disc with mixed boundary condition
Abstract
Given any non-central interior point of the unit disc , the diameter through is the union of two linear arcs emanating from which meet orthogonally, the shorter of them stable and the longer unstable (under these boundary conditions). In each of the two half discs bounded by , we construct a convex eternal solution to curve shortening flow which fixes and meets orthogonally, and evolves out of the unstable critical arc at and into the stable one at . We then prove that these two (congruent) solutions are the only non-flat convex ancient solutions to the curve shortening flow satisfying the specified boundary conditions. We obtain analogous conclusions in the "degenerate" case as well, although in this case the solution contracts to the point at a finite time with asymptotic shape that of a half Grim Reaper, thus providing an interesting example for which an embedded flow develops a collapsing singularity.
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@article{arxiv.2404.01525,
title = {Ancient curve shortening flow in the disc with mixed boundary condition},
author = {Mat Langford and Yuxing Liu and George McNamara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01525},
year = {2024}
}