We consider the evolution of open planar curves by the steepest descent flow of a geometric functional, with different boundary conditions. We prove that, if any set of stationary solutions with fixed energy is finite, then a solution of the flow converges to a stationary solution as time goes to infinity. We also present a few applications of this result.
Convergence to equilibrium of gradient flows defined on planar curves
Novaga, Matteo;
2017-01-01
Abstract
We consider the evolution of open planar curves by the steepest descent flow of a geometric functional, with different boundary conditions. We prove that, if any set of stationary solutions with fixed energy is finite, then a solution of the flow converges to a stationary solution as time goes to infinity. We also present a few applications of this result.File in questo prodotto:
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