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The anisotropic polyharmonic curve flow for closed plane curves

Differential Geometry 2017-06-08 v1

Abstract

We study the curve diffusion flow for closed curves immersed in the Minkowski plane M\mathcal{M}, which is equivalent to the Euclidean plane endowed with a closed, symmetric, convex curve called an indicatrix that scales the length of a vector in M\mathcal{M} depending on its length. The indiactrix U\partial\mathcal{U} (where UR2\mathcal{U}\subset\mathbb{R}^{2} is a convex, centrally symmetric domain) induces a second convex body, the isoperimetrix I~\tilde{\mathcal{I}}. This set is the unique convex set that miniminises the isoperimetric ratio (modulo homothetic rescaling) in the Minkowski plane. We prove that under the flow, closed curves that are initially close to a homothetic rescaling of the isoperimetrix in an averaged L2L^{2} sense exists for all time and converge exponentially fast to a homothetic rescaling of the isoperimetrix that has enclosed area equal to the enclosed area of the initial immersion.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02045,
  title  = {The anisotropic polyharmonic curve flow for closed plane curves},
  author = {Scott Parkins and Glen Wheeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02045},
  year   = {2017}
}

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