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In this paper we consider the steepest descent $H^{-1}$-gradient flow of the length functional for immersed plane curves, known as the curve diffusion flow. It is known that under this flow there exist both initially immersed curves which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Glen Wheeler

Recently, flow-based generative models have shown superior efficiency compared to diffusion models. In this paper, we study rectified flow models, which constrain transport trajectories to be linear from the base distribution to the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hari Krishna Sahoo , Mudit Gaur , Vaneet Aggarwal

We prove that smooth convex $\alpha$-noncollapsed ancient mean curvature flow satisfies a quantitative curvature estimate $H(y,t)\leq CH(x,t)(H(x,t)|x-y|+1)^2$ for any pair of $x,y$. In other words, the rescaled curvature grows at most…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-27 Jingze Zhu

We construct a new example of an immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$, which converges to a plane with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Jingwen Chen , Ao Sun

In this article we consider the length functional defined on the space of immersed planar curves. The $L^2(ds)$ Riemannian metric gives rise to the curve shortening flow as the gradient flow of the length functional. Motivated by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Theodora Bourni , Nathan Burns , Mat Langford

Let $(M^{n},g_{0})$ be a $n=3,4,5$ dimensional, closed Riemannian manifold of positive Yamabe invariant. For a smooth function $K>0$ on $M$ we consider a scalar curvature flow, that tends to prescribe $K$ as the scalar curvature of a metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Martin Mayer

This thesis presents three results in geometric analysis. We first analyze the curve-shortening flow on figure eight curves in the plane. Afterwards, we examine the point-wise curvature preserving flow on space curves. Lastly, we present an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Matei P. Coiculescu

We prove the instability of the Couette flow if the disturbances is less smooth than the Gevrey space of class 2. This shows that this is the critical regularity for this problem since it was proved in [5] that stability and inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Yu Deng , Nader Masmoudi

In this paper we study similarity measures for moving curves which can, for example, model changing coastlines or retreating glacier termini. Points on a moving curve have two parameters, namely the position along the curve as well as time.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Kevin Buchin , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann

We establish a general result ensuring a $C^1$ a priori bound for smooth curves of Hermitian metrics. As a main application, we obtain a new regularity result for Hermitian curvature flows, and in particular for the second Chern-Ricci flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Marco Gallo , Luigi Vezzoni

Consider the mean curvature flow of an (n+1)-dimensional, compact, mean convex region in Euclidean space (or, if n<7, in a Riemannian manifold). We prove that elements of the m-th homotopy group of the complementary region can die only if…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Brian White

We consider a fourth-order regularization of the curvature flow for an immersed plane curve with fixed boundary, using an elastica-type functional depending on a small positive parameter $\varepsilon$. We show that the approximating flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Giovanni Bellettini , Virginia Lorenzini , Matteo Novaga , Riccardo Scala

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

Let f:\Sigma_1 --> \Sigma_2 be a map between compact Riemannian manifolds of constant curvature. This article considers the evolution of the graph of f in the product of \Sigma_1 and \Sigma_2 by the mean curvature flow. Under suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Mu-Tao Wang

We present a numerical method for computing the evolution of a planar, star-shaped curve under a broad class of curvature-driven geometric flows, which we refer to as the Andrews-Bloore flows. This family of flows has two parameters that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Eszter Fehér , Gábor Domokos , Bernd Krasukopf

In this paper, we present a new self-supervised scene flow estimation approach for a pair of consecutive point clouds. The key idea of our approach is to represent discrete point clouds as continuous probability density functions using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

We study the area preserving curve shortening flow with Neumann free boundary conditions outside of a convex domain in the Euclidean plane. Under certain conditions on the initial curve the flow does not develop any singularity, and it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

This work introduces the framed curvature flow, a generalization of both the curve shortening flow and the vortex filament equation. Here, the magnitude of the velocity vector is still determined by the curvature, but its direction is given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jiří Minarčík , Michal Beneš

In this paper we study the uniqueness of graphical mean curvature flow. We consider as initial conditions graphs of locally Lipschitz functions and prove that in the one dimensional case solutions are unique without any further assumptions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Mariel Saez