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Classification of curves in a projective space occupies minds of many mathematicians. First step in doing so is classification of curves on a given surface. This brings us to consideration of the nonsingular Del Pezzo Surface in $P^4_k.$ We…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Elena Drozd

The conformal nature of smooth curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is characterised by conformal length, curvature and torsion. We present a derivation of these conformal parameters via a limiting process using inscribed polygons with circular edges .…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Harald Dorn

A longstanding avenue of research in orientable surface topology is to create and enumerate collections of curves in surfaces with certain intersection properties. We look for similar collections of curves in non-orientable surfaces. A…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Sarah Ruth Nicholls , Nancy Scherich , Julia Shneidman

We consider embedded, smooth curves in the plane which are either closed or asymptotic to two lines. We study their behaviour under curve shortening flow with a global forcing term. Firstly, we prove an analogue to Huisken's distance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Friederike Dittberner

Motivated by Pan-Yang [PY] and Ma-Cheng [MC], we study a general linear nonlocal curvature flow for convex closed plane curves and discuss the short time existence and asymptotic convergence behavior of the flow. Due to the linear structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-02 Yu-Chu Lin , Dong-Ho Tsai

The main intention of the paper is to investigate an osculating curve under the conformal map. We obtain a sufficient condition for the conformal invariance of an osculating curve. We also find an equivalent system of a geodesic curve under…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Absos Ali Shaikh , Mohamd Saleem Lone , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

We consider a motion of non-closed planar curves with infinite length. The motion is governed by a steepest descent flow for the geometric functional which consists of the sum of the length functional and the total squared curvature. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

We consider an invariant gradient flow for the invariant length functional for co-compact curves in inversive geometry, and prove that solutions exist for all time and converge to loxodromic curves, provided the initial curve is admissible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Ben Andrews , Glen Wheeler

Continuum equations are ubiquitous in physical modelling of elastic, viscous, and viscoelastic systems. The equations of continuum mechanics take nontrivial forms on curved surfaces. Although the curved surface formulation of the continuum…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Sujit Kumar Nath

We give an explicit construction of a closed curve with constant torsion and everywhere positive curvature. We also discuss the restrictions on closed curves of constant torsion when they are constrained to lie on convex surfaces.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Larr M. Bates , O. Michael Melko

In this paper we construct a new class of surfaces whose geodesic flow is integrable (in the sense of Liouville). We do so by generalizing the notion of tubes about curves to 3-dimensional manifolds, and using Jacobi fields we derive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Thomas Waters

The geodesic flow on a finite discrete q-manifold with or without boundary is defined as as a permutation of its ordered q-simplices. This allows to define geodesic sheets and a notion of sectional curvature.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Oliver Knill

A nonlocal curvature flow is introduced to evolve locally convex curves in the plane. It is proved that this flow with any initial locally convex curve has a global solution, keeping the local convexity and the elastic energy of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Laiyuan Gao , Horst Martini , Deyan Zhang

We study the length-preserving elastic flow of curves in arbitrary codimension with free boundary on hypersurfaces. This constrained gradient flow is given by a nonlocal evolution equation with nonlinear higher-order boundary conditions. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Anna Dall'Acqua , Manuel Schlierf

We give bounds on the number of non-simple closed curves on a negatively curved surface, given upper bounds on both length and self-intersection number. In particular, it was previously known that the number of all closed curves of length…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-21 Jenya Sapir

We discuss the property of the number density of a fluid of particles living in a curved surface without boundaries to be constant in the thermodynamic limit. In particular we find a sufficient condition for the density to be constant along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-20 Riccardo Fantoni

The article surveys inverse problems related to the twisted geodesic flows on Riemannian manifolds with boundary, focusing on the generalized ray transforms, tensor tomography, and rigidity problems. The twisted geodesic flow generalizes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Shubham R. Jathar , Jesse Railo

This paper is devoted to the investigation of gradient flows in asymmetric metric spaces (for example, irreversible Finsler manifolds and Minkowski normed spaces) by means of discrete approximation. We study basic properties of curves and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Shin-ichi Ohta , Wei Zhao

The equations for waves on the surface of an irrotational incompressible fluid are derived in the coordinates of the velocity potential/stream function. The low frequency shallow water approximation for these waves is derived for a varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 W. G. Unruh

The present paper deals with some characterizations of rectifying and osculating curves on a smooth surface with respect to the reference frame $\{\vec{T},\ \vec{N},\ \vec{T}\times\vec{N}\}$. We have computed the components of position…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Absos Ali Shaikh , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh