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The elastic flow of curves in the hyperbolic plane

Analysis of PDEs 2017-10-27 v1

Abstract

We consider closed curves in the hyperbolic space moving by the L2L^2-gradient flow of the elastic energy and prove well-posedness and long time existence. Under the additional penalisation of the length we show subconvergence to critical points. A motivation for the study of this flow is given by the relation between elastic curves in the hyperbolic plane and Willmore surfaces of revolution.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09600,
  title  = {The elastic flow of curves in the hyperbolic plane},
  author = {Anna Dall'Acqua and Adrian Spener},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09600},
  year   = {2017}
}

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40 pages, submitted to Communications in Analysis and Geometry