Paper · Oct 13, 2017

A curvature flow in the plane with a nonlocal term

Luis Caffarelli, Hui Yu

math.APWider flowsarXiv:1710.04755

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Abstract

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 asymptotics of this flow.

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Oct 13, 2017
Subjects
math.AP, math.DG

Comments: 9 pages

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