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We examine the L^2-gradient flow of Euler's elastic energy for closed curves in hyperbolic space and prove convergence to the global minimizer for initial curves with elastic energy bounded by 16. We show the sharpness of this bound by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Marius Müller , Adrian Spener

We consider an obstacle problem for elastic curves with fixed ends. We attempt to extend the graph approach provided in [8]. More precisely, we investigate nonexistence of graph solutions for special obstacles and extend the class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-10 Marius Müller

We investigate the asymptotic stability of the length-penalized elastic flow of curves with boundary points constrained to the $x$-axis in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The main tool in our analysis is the Lojasiewicz--Simon inequality, which is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Antonia Diana

In this article we investigate a system of geometric evolution equations describing a curvature driven motion of a family of 3D curves in the normal and binormal directions. Evolving curves may be subject of mutual interactions having both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Michal Benes , Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We derive an $H^{-1}$-gradient flow of the elastic energy which preserves the enclosed area of evolving planar curves. For this new sixth-order evolution equation, we prove a global existence result. Additionally, by penalizing the length,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Leonie Langer

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

Understanding crystal growth over arbitrary curved surfaces with arbitrary boundaries is a formidable challenge, stemming from the complexity of formulating non-linear elasticity using geometric invariant quantities. Solutions are generally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-22 Yankang Liu , Siyu Li , Roya Zandi , Alex Travesset

In this article we study the anisotropic curve shortening flow for a planar network of three curves with fixed endpoints and which meet in a triple junction. We show that the anisotropic curvature energy fulfills a Lojasiewicz-Simon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Michael Gößwein , Matteo Novaga , Paola Pozzi

In arXiv:2205.02920 a variant of the classical elastic flow for closed curves in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ was introduced, that is more suitable for numerical purposes. Here we investigate the long-time properties of such evolution demonstrating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Paola Pozzi

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We study the long-time behaviour of solutions to quasilinear doubly degenerate parabolic problems of fourth order. The equations model for instance the dynamic behaviour of a non-Newtonian thin-film flow on a flat impermeable bottom and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Jonas Jansen , Christina Lienstromberg , Katerina Nik

We consider the geometric evolution problem of entire graphs moving by fractional mean curvature. For this, we study the associated nonlocal quasilinear evolution equation satisfied by the family of graph functions. We establish, using an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Anoumou Attiogbe , Mouahmed Moustapha Fall , Tobias Weth

Given a planar crystalline anisotropy, we study the crystalline elastic flow of immersed polygonal curves, possibly also unbounded. Assuming that the segments evolve by parallel translation (as it happens in the standard crystalline…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Shokhrukh Yu. Kholmatov , Matteo Novaga

The problem of characterizing the structure of an elastic network constrained to lie on a frozen curved surface appears in many areas of science and has been addressed by many different approaches, most notably, extending linear elasticity…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Yinan Dong , Roya Zandi , Alex Travesset

This paper contains a new proof of the short-time existence for the flow by curvature of a network of curves in the plane. Appearing initially in metallurgy and as a model for the evolution of grain boundaries, this flow was later treated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Jorge Lira , Rafe Mazzeo , Alessandra Pluda , Mariel Saez

This study analyzes steady periodic hydroelastic waves propagating on the water surface of finite depth beneath nonlinear elastic membranes. Unlike previous work \cite{BaldiT,BaldiT1,Toland,Toland1}, our formulation accommodates rotational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Yong Zhang

We examine a steepest energy descent flow with obstacle constraint in higher order energy frameworks where the maximum principle is not available. We construct the flow under general assumptions using De Giorgi's minimizing movement scheme.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Marius Müller

We prove a short time existence result for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss a mean curvature flow scaled with a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

Diffusion is a fundamental graph procedure and has been a basic building block in a wide range of theoretical and empirical applications such as graph partitioning and semi-supervised learning on graphs. In this paper, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Li Chen , Richard Peng , Di Wang

In this note, we study an obstacle problem for the elastic flow. We prove the local-in-time existence of weak solutions and discuss their relation to classical solutions when additional regularity is obtained. Related results concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Kensuke Yoshizawa