Stationary Solutions of the Curvature Preserving Flow on Space Curves
Differential Geometry
2021-01-19 v3 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Abstract
We study a geometric flow on curves, immersed in , that have strictly positive torsion. The evolution equation is given by where is the torsion and is the unit binormal vector. In the case of constant curvature, we find all of the stationary solutions and linearize the PDE for torsion around stationary solutions admitting an explicit formula. Afterwards, we prove the linear stability of the stationary solutions corresponding to helices with constant curvature and constant torsion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.03369,
title = {Stationary Solutions of the Curvature Preserving Flow on Space Curves},
author = {Matei P. Coiculescu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.03369},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
12 pages, 3 figures. We have added a discussion on the linearization of the torsion evolution equation around helix stationary solutions