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Soliton Solutions to the Curve Shortening Flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic plane

Differential Geometry 2021-02-01 v2

Abstract

We show that a curve is a soliton solution to the curve shortening flow if and only if its geodesic curvature can be written as the inner product between its tangent vector field and a fixed vector of the 3-dimensional Minkowski space. We use this characterization to provide a qualitative study of the solitons. We show that for each fixed vector there is a 2-parameter family of soliton solutions to the curve shortening flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic space. Moreover, we prove that each soliton is defined on the entire real line, it is embedded and its geodesic curvature converges to a constant at each end.

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@article{arxiv.2101.07916,
  title  = {Soliton Solutions to the Curve Shortening Flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic plane},
  author = {Fabio Nunes da Silva and Keti Tenenblat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.07916},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages, in English, 16 figures