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Let L be the manifold of all (unparametrized) oriented lines of R^3. We study the controllability of the control system in L given by the condition that a curve in L describes at each instant, at the infinitesimal level, an helicoid with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Mateo Anarella , Marcos Salvai

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 the motion by curvature of a network of smooth curves with multiple junctions in the plane, that is, the geometric gradient flow associated to the length functional. Such a flow represents the evolution of a two--dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga , Vincenzo Maria Tortorelli

The present research article is devoted to the study of two fluid-dynamical traffic models and their steady states by first analyzing the kinetic-type Borsche-Kimathi-Klar model and the Navier-Stokes-type Helbing model. To fulfill this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-02-16 M David Alvarez Hernandez , Shani Alvarez Hernandez

In this paper, we consider the $L^2$-gradient flow for the modified $p$-elastic energy defined on planar closed curves. We formulate a notion of weak solution for the flow and prove the existence of global-in-time weak solutions with $p \ge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Shinya Okabe , Glen Wheeler

Kaniadakis deformed \kappa-mathematics is an area of mathematics that has found relevance in the analysis of complex systems. Specifically, the mathematical framework in the context of a first-order decay \kappa-differential equation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Rohan Bolle , Ibrahim Jarra , Jeffery A. Secrest

This paper presents a new mathematical model of vehicular traffic, based on the methods of the generalized kinetic theory, in which the space of microscopic states (position and velocity) of the vehicles is genuinely discrete. While in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Luisa Fermo , Andrea Tosin

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

We study the evolution of a Jordan curve on the 2-sphere by curvature flow, also known as curve shortening flow, and by level-set flow, which is a weak formulation of curvature flow. We show that the evolution of the curve depends…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Michael Gene Dobbins

Motivated by the classical Euler elastic curves, David A. Singer posed in 1999 the problem of determining a plane curve whose curvature is given in terms of its position. We propound the same question in Lorentz-Minkowski plane, focusing on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

This paper focuses on using the first curvature $\kappa(t)$ of trajectory to describe the stability of linear time-invariant system. We extend the results for two and three-dimensional systems [Y. Wang, H. Sun, Y. Song et al.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Yuxin Wang , Huafei Sun , Shoudong Huang , Yang Song

We study first-order ordinary differential equations such that the intrinsic Gauss curvature of the associated surface depends only on the independent variable: $\mathcal{K}(x,u)=\kappa(x)$, showing that this geometrically motivated class…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2026-04-08 A. J. Pan-Collantes , J. A. Álvarez-García

It is well known that plane curves with the same endpoints are homotopic. An analogous claim for plane curves with the same endpoints and bounded curvature still remains open. In this work we find necessary and sufficient conditions for two…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-23 José Ayala

We study a geometric flow where the motion of a set is driven by the mean curvature of its boundary and the normal derivative of its capacity potential. We establish local well-posedness and propose two possible weak formulations that exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Hui Yu

In this paper, we study the evolution of smooth, closed planar curves under a fourth order biharmonic flow with an external forcing term. Such flows arise naturally in the theory of biharmonic maps and geometric variational problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Mohammad Javad Habibi Vosta Kolaei

The aim of this paper is to extend classic results of the theory of CMC surfaces in the product spaces to the class of immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{M}^2(\kappa)\times\mathbb{R}$ whose mean curvature is given as a $C^1$ function depending…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Antonio Bueno

We investigate a steady planar flow of an ideal fluid in a (bounded or unbounded) domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2$. Let $\kappa_i\not=0$, $i=1,\ldots, m$, be $m$ arbitrary fixed constants. For any given non-degenerate critical point…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Daomin Cao , Guolin Qin , Changjun Zou

The paper is devoted to the motion of a body in a fluid under the influence of gravity and drag. Depending on the regime considered, the drag force can exhibit a linear, quadratic or even more general dependence on the velocity of the body…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shouryya Ray , Jochen Fröhlich

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

Curvature plays a central organizational role in active polymer dynamics. Using large-scale Langevin-dynamics simulations, we study active semiflexible filaments confined to smooth curved surfaces and map how curvature, bending rigidity,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-18 Giulia Janzen , Euan D. Mackay , Rastko Sknepnek , D. A. Matoz-Fernandez