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Evolution of Locally Convex Closed Curves in Nonlocal Curvature Flows

Analysis of PDEs 2017-08-17 v1

Abstract

We provide sufficient conditions on an initial curve for the area preserving and the length preserving curvature flows of curves in a plane, to develop a singularity at some finite time or converge to an mm-fold circle as time goes to infinity. For the area-preserving flow, the positivity of the enclosed algebraic area determines whether the curvature blows up in finite time or not, while for the length-preserving flow, it is the positivity of an energy associated with initial curve that plays such a role.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04827,
  title  = {Evolution of Locally Convex Closed Curves in Nonlocal Curvature Flows},
  author = {Natasa Sesum and Dong-Ho Tsai and Xiao-Liu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04827},
  year   = {2017}
}