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We introduce a novel energy method that reinterprets ``curve shortening'' as ``tangent aligning''. This conceptual shift enables the variational study of infinite-length curves evolving by the curve shortening flow, as well as higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tatsuya Miura , Fabian Rupp

In this paper, we introduce a kind of inverse mean curvature flow (1.2) in a Sasakian sub-Riemannian 3-manifold $M$ for Legendrian curves, which slightly differs from the classical one, and confirm that this flow preserves the Legendrian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jingshi Cui , Peibiao Zhao

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

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

In this article we study Chen's flow of curves from theoreical and numerical perspectives. We investigate two settings: that of closed immersed $\omega$-circles, and immersed lines satisfying a cocompactness condition. In each of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Matthew Cooper , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this paper, we systemally study the long time behavior of the curve shortening flow in a closed or non-compact complete locally Riemannian symmetric manifold. Assume that we have a global flow. Then we can exhibit a a limit for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Dezhong Chen

We study a singular parabolic equation of the total variation type in one dimension. The problem is a simplification of the singular curvature flow. We show existence and uniqueness of weak solutions. We also prove existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Piotr B. Mucha , Piotr Rybka

In this article we investigate the dynamics of special solutions to the surface diffusion flow of idealised ribbons. This equation reduces to studying the curve diffusion flow for the profile curve of the ribbon. We provide: (1) a complete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Maureen Edwards , Alexander Gerhardt-Bourke , James McCoy , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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

In this paper we use a gradient flow to deform closed planar curves to curves with least variation of geodesic curvature in the $L^2$ sense. Given a smooth initial curve we show that the solution to the flow exists for all time and,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Ben Andrews , James McCoy , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

This paper aims to investigate the evolution problem for planar curves with singularities. Motivated by the inverse curvature flow introduced by Li and Wang (Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 62 (2023), No. 135), we intend to consider the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Yunlong Yang , Yanwen Zhao , Jianbo Fang , Yanlong Zhang

We investigate the behaviour of vertices and inflexions on 1-parameter families of curves on smooth surfaces in the 3-space, which include a singular member. In particular, we discuss the context where the curves evolve as sections of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-24 Andre Diatta , Peter J. Giblin

In the present paper we carry out a systematic study about the flow of a spherical curve by the mean curvature flow with density in a 3-dimensional rotationally symmetric space with density $(M^3_w,\:g_w,\:\xi)$ where the density $\xi$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Francisco Viñado-Lereu

In this paper, we study the computation of curvatures at the singular points of algebraic curves and surfaces. The idea is to convert the problem to compute the curvatures of the corresponding regular parametric curves and surfaces, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Chong-Jun Li , Ren-Hong Wang

We introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

We give a rather elementary proof of a Huisken-type monotonicity formula for curve shortening flow in 3D.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Hayk Mikayelyan

This paper concerns with the asymptotic behavior of complete non-compact convex curves embedded in $\mathbb{R}^2$ under the $\alpha$-curve shortening flow for exponents $\alpha >\frac12$. We show that any such curve having in addition its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Beomjun Choi , Kyeongsu Choi , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

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

We introduce a new geometric flow called the chord shortening flow which is the negative gradient flow for the length functional on the space of chords with end points lying on a fixed submanifold in Euclidean space. As an application, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Martin Li