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Classification of ancient flows by sub-affine-critical powers of curvature in $\mathbb{R}^2$

Differential Geometry 2022-02-03 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We classify closed convex α\alpha-curve shortening flows for sub-affine-critical powers α13\alpha \leq \frac{1}{3}. In addition, we show that closed convex smooth finite entropy α\alpha-curve shortening flows with 13<α\frac{1}{3}<\alpha is a shrinking circle. After normalization, the ancient flows satisfying the above conditions converge exponentially fast to smooth closed convex shrinkers at the backward infinity. In particular, when α=1k21\alpha=\frac{1}{k^2-1} with 3kN3\leq k \in \mathbb{N}, the round circle shrinker has non-trivial Jacobi fields, but the ancient flows do not evolve along the Jacobi fields.

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@article{arxiv.2012.01727,
  title  = {Classification of ancient flows by sub-affine-critical powers of curvature in $\mathbb{R}^2$},
  author = {Kyeongsu Choi and Liming Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01727},
  year   = {2022}
}