English
Related papers

Related papers: A nonlocal curve flow in centro-affine geometry

200 papers

We give the following results for Pinkall's central affine curve flow on the plane: (i) a systematic and simple way to construct the known higher commuting curve flows, conservation laws, and a bi-Hamiltonian structure, (ii) Baecklund…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Chuu-Lian Terng , Zhiwei Wu

Given a smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space ($n\geq2$), we consider strictly mean convex hypersurfaces with boundary which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the cone and which meet the cone perpendicularly. If…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Jing Mao , Qiang Tu

In this paper, we study the area-preserving and length-preserving $\kappa^\alpha$-type curvature flows of smooth, closed, convex curves in the two-dimensional hyperbolic plane $\mathbb H^2$ for $\alpha<0$ and prove that convexity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zhishuai Liu , Guoxin Wei

Given a convex cone in the \emph{prescribed} warped product, we consider hypersurfaces with boundary which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the cone and which meet the cone perpendicularly. If those hypersurfaces inside the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Li Chen , Jing Mao , Ni Xiang , Chi Xu

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 study families of smooth, embedded, regular planar curves $ \alpha : \left [-1,1 \right ]\times \left [0,T \right )\to \mathbb{R}^{2}$ with generalised Neumann boundary conditions inside cones, satisfying three variants of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Mashniah A. Gazwani , James A. McCoy

We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces with the boundary which meets a strictly convex cone perpendicularly. We prove that if these hypersurfaces expand inside this cone, driven by the power of the Gauss curvature, then the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Li Chen , Ni Xiang

This expository paper presents the current knowledge of particular fully nonlinear curvature flows with local forcing term, so-called locally constrained curvature flows. We focus on the spherical ambient space. The flows are designed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Chuanqiang Chen , Pengfei Guan , Junfang Li , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we consider the evolution of spacelike graphic curves defined over a piece of hyperbola $\mathscr{H}^{1}(1)$, of center at origin and radius $1$, in the $2$ dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski plane $\mathbb{R}^{2}_{1}$ along an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Ya Gao , Chenyang Liu , Jing Mao

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

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

We investigate a system of geometric evolution equations describing a curvature and torsion driven motion of a family of 3D curves in the normal and binormal directions. We explore the direct Lagrangian approach for treating the geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

Any two equivalent discrete curves must have the same invariants at the corresponding points under an affine transformation. In this paper, we construct the moving frame and invariants for the discrete centroaffine curves, which could be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-04 Yun Yang

We study families of smooth immersed regular planar curves $ \alpha : \left [-1,1 \right ]\times \left [0,T \right )\to \mathbb{R}^{2}$ satisfying the fourth order nonlinear curve diffusion flow with generalised Neumann boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-01 Mashniah Gazwani , James McCoy

We consider an invariant gradient flow for the invariant length functional for co-compact curves in inversive geometry, and prove that solutions exist for all time and converge to loxodromic curves, provided the initial curve is admissible…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Ben Andrews , Glen Wheeler

In the paper published in Duke Math. J. 1993, Y. Wen studied a second-order parabolic equation for inextensible elastic \emph{closed} curves in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ toward inextensible elasticae. In this article, we extend Wen's result to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Chun-Chi Lin , Yang-Kai Lue , Hartmut R. Schwetlick

We study the evolution of curves with fixed length and clamped boundary conditions moving by the negative $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy. For any initial curve lying merely in the energy space we show existence and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Fabian Rupp , Adrian Spener

We analyse second order (in Riemann curvature) geometric flows (un-normalised) on locally homogeneous three manifolds and look for specific features through the solutions (analytic whereever possible, otherwise numerical) of the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Sanjit Das , Kartik Prabhu , Sayan Kar

We study evolution of a closed embedded plane curve with the normal velocity depending on the curvature, the orientation and the position of the curve. We propose a new method of tangential redistribution of points by curvature adjusted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-01-25 Daniel Sevcovic , Shigetoshi Yazaki

We prove a comparison theorem for the isoperimetric profiles of simple closed curves evolving by the normalized curve shortening flow: If the isoperimetric profile of the region enclosed by the initial curve is greater than that of some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Ben Andrews , Paul Bryan