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Stability of the Shrinking Semi-Circle Under the Free Boundary Curve Shortening Flow

Differential Geometry 2026-03-10 v1

Abstract

We establish a sharp rate of convergence for a free-boundary curve shortening flow in a convex domain in R2\mathbb{R}^{2} which converges in finite time to a round half-point.

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@article{arxiv.2603.06949,
  title  = {Stability of the Shrinking Semi-Circle Under the Free Boundary Curve Shortening Flow},
  author = {Theodora Bourni and Nathan Burns and Mat Langford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.06949},
  year   = {2026}
}