https://neckpinch.com/authors/friederike-dittberner/New arXiv papers by Friederike Dittberner, from Neckpinch Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:41:12 GMT https://neckpinch.com/papers/2205.13466/arxiv:2205.13466Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 GMTFriederike Dittberner — We consider closed, embedded, smooth curves in the plane and study their behaviour under curve flows with a global forcing term. We prove an analogue to Huisken's distance comparison principle for curve shortening flow for initial curves whose local total curvature does not lie below -pi and arbitrary global forcing terms.Curve shortening