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We investigate the motion of a family of closed curves evolving according to the geometric evolution law on a given two dimensional manifold which is embedded or immersed in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. We derive a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

We study the geometric flow of a planar curve driven by its curvature and the normal derivative of its capacity potential. Under a convexity condition that is natural to our problem, we establish long term existence and large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Luis Caffarelli , Hui Yu

In this paper, we study a curve flow which preserves the anisotropic length of the evolving curve, and show that for any convex closed initial curve, the flow exists for all time and the evolving curve converges to a homothety of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Zezhen Sun

Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Dylan Cant

For a given smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which is centered at the origin, we investigate the evolution of strictly mean convex hypersurfaces, which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

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 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 consider an evolving plane curve with two endpoints that can move freely on the $x$-axis with generating constant contact angles. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of global-in-time solutions when the evolution of this plane curve is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Takashi Kagaya

We consider the $H^{-m}$-gradient flow of length for closed plane curves. This flow is a generalization of curve diffusion flow. We investigate the large-time behavior assuming the global existence of the flow. Then we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Kohei Nakamura

We analyze a gradient flow of closed planar curves minimizing the anisoperimetric ratio. For such a flow the normal velocity is a function of the anisotropic curvature and it also depends on the total interfacial energy and enclosed area of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Daniel Sevcovic , Shigetoshi Yazaki

Several inequalities for the isoperimetric ratio for plane curves are derived. In particular, we obtain interpolation inequalities between the deviation of curvature and the isoperimetric ratio. As applications, we study the large-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Takeyuki Nagasawa , Kohei Nakamura

Several non-local curvature flows for plane curves with a general rotation number are discussed in this work. The types of flows include the area-preserving flow and the length-preserving flow. We have a relatively good understanding of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Takeyuki Nagasawa , Kohei Nakamura

In this article, we study a locally constrained fully nonlinear curvature flow for convex capillary hypersurfaces in half-space. We prove that the flow preserves the convexity, exists for all time, and converges smoothly to a spherical cap.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

A recent paper [CGT] studies the evolution of star-shaped mean convex hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space by a class of nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows. In the present paper we consider the same problem in the real, complex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Giuseppe Pipoli

Employing the affine normal flow, we prove a stability version of the $p$-affine isoperimetric inequality for $p\geq1$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ in the class of origin-symmetric convex bodies. That is, if $K$ is an origin-symmetric convex body in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-28 Mohammad N. Ivaki

We consider a planar geometric flow in which the normal velocity is a nonlocal variant of the curvature. The flow is not scaling invariant and in fact has different behaviors at different spatial scales, thus producing phenomena that are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Serena Dipierro , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper, we deals with isoperimetric-type inequalities for closed convex curves in the Euclidean plane R^2. We derive a family of parametric inequalities involving the following geometric functionals associated to a given convex curve…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Xiang Gao

We study the curvature flow of planar nonconvex lens-shaped domains, considered as special symmetric networks with two triple junctions. We show that the evolving domain becomes convex in finite time; then it shrinks homothetically to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-02 G. Bellettini , M. Novaga

We construct integrable hierarchies of flows for curves in centroaffine ${\mathbb R}^3$ through a natural pre-symplectic structure on the space of closed unparametrized starlike curves. We show that the induced evolution equations for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2013-03-07 Annalisa Calini , Thomas Ivey , Gloria Mari Beffa