Constrained Curvature Flows on Pinched Hadamard Surfaces
Abstract
We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires refined comparison arguments and delicate curvature estimates. For smooth convex initial curves, we prove preservation and instantaneous strictness of convexity, long-time existence, and uniform bounds for the curvature and its higher derivatives. Under additional geometric assumptions, we obtain convergence of the curvature to a constant. In the rotationally symmetric case, the area-preserving flow exhibits a dichotomy: either the evolving curves converge exponentially to a geodesic circle, or they drift off to infinity and approach a constant-curvature limit curve. We also identify a geometric condition on the initial curve that prevents escape to infinity and guarantees convergence to a geodesic circle.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.13734,
title = {Constrained Curvature Flows on Pinched Hadamard Surfaces},
author = {Sara Albert-Niclòs and Esther Cabezas-Rivas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.13734},
year = {2026}
}