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We study a 2D potential flow of an ideal fluid with a free surface with decaying conditions at infinity. By using the conformal variables approach, we study a particular solution of Euler equations having a pair of square-root branch points…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. I. Dyachenko , S. A. Dyachenko , V. E. Zakharov

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

The conformal flow of metrics [2] has been used to successfully establish a special case of the Penrose inequality, which yields a lower bound for the total mass of a spacetime in terms of horizon area. Here we show how to adapt the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-28 Qing Han , Marcus Khuri

We consider closed curves in the hyperbolic space moving by the $L^2$-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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Anna Dall'Acqua , Adrian Spener

In this paper we consider the steepest descent L2-gradient flow of the entropy functional. The flow expands convex curves, with the radius of an initial circle growing like the square root of time. Our main result is that, for any initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Lachlann O'Donnell , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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

Starting from the vortex filament flow introduced in 1906 by Da Rios, there is a hierarchy of commuting geometric flows on space curves. The traditional approach relates those flows to the nonlinear Schr\"odinger hierarchy satisfied by the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Albert Chern , Felix Knöppel , Franz Pedit , Ulrich Pinkall

We construct new expanders for mean curvature flow that are smoothly asymptotic to cones arising from certain shrinkers. For each such cone, we prove the existence of expanders of arbitrarily large genus. Thus, for a fixed incoming…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 David Hoffman , Francisco Martin , Brian White

In this paper we introduce a geometric quantity, the $r$-multiplicity, that controls the length of a smooth curve as it evolves by curve shortening flow. The length estimates we obtain are used to prove results about the level set flow in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Joseph Lauer

We prove that for the mean curvature flow of two-convex hypersurfaces the intrinsic diameter stays uniformly controlled as one approaches the first singular time. We also derive sharp $L^{n-1}$-estimates for the regularity scale of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Panagiotis Gianniotis , Robert Haslhofer

Steady fluid flows have very special topology. In this paper we describe necessary and sufficient conditions on the vorticity function of a 2D ideal flow on a surface with or without boundary, for which there exists a steady flow among…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-19 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed curvature problem associated with a special Lin-Lu-Yau curvature on finite graphs of girth at least 6. We define the corresponding Calabi flow for this curvature type, and establish an equivalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yi Li , Jie Wang , Pingsan Yuan , Chao Zheng

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for a class of crystalline mean curvature flows with natural mobility is proved. The results are valid in any dimension and for arbitrary, possibly unbounded, initial closed sets. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione

We study properly immersed ancient solutions of the codimension one mean curvature flow in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, and classify the convex hulls of the subsets of space reached by any such flow. In particular, it follows that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Francesco Chini , Niels Martin Møller

We show that under Space Curve Shortening flow any closed immersed curve in $\mathbb R^n$ whose projection onto $\mathbb{R}^2\times\{\vec{0}\}$ is convex remains smooth until it shrinks to a point. Throughout its evolution, the projection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Qi Sun

Let $M$ be a K\"ahler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature. If the initial surface is sufficiently close to a holomorphic curve, we show that the mean curvature flow has a global solution and it converges to a holomorphic curve.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaoli Han , Jiayu Li

This article deals with flow of plane curves driven by the curvature and external force. We make use of such a geometric flow for the purpose of image segmentation. A parametric model for evolving curves with uniform and curvature adjusted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 M. Benes , M. Kimura , P. Paus , D. Sevcovic , T. Tsujikawa , S. Yazaki

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

We derive pointwise curvature estimates for graphical mean curvature flows in higher codimensions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such estimates without assuming smallness of first derivatives of the defining map. An…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Knut Smoczyk , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

The theory of classical types of curves in normed planes is not strongly developed. In particular, the knowledge on existing concepts of curvatures of planar curves is widespread and not systematized in the literature. Giving a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Emad Shonoda