Paper · Mar 6, 2020

Ancient solutions to the Curve Shortening Flow spanning the halfplane

John Man Shun Ma

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2003.03018v2
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Abstract

In this note we construct an infinite family of ancient solutions to the Curve Shortening Flow which span the halfplane.

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Submitted
Mar 6, 2020
Last revised
Nov 16, 2020 (v2)
Subjects
math.DG

Comments: 21 pages, to appear in Transaction of AMS

Curve shorteningAncient solutions

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    Jumageldi CharyyevWider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

  2. Convex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow

    Theodora Bourni, Mat Langford and Giuseppe TinagliaWider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

  3. Convex Ancient Solutions to Anisotropic Curve Shortening Flow

    Theodora Bourni and Benjamin RichardsWider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

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    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

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    Yongzhe Zhang, Connor Olson, Ilyas Khan et al.Wider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

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    Theodora Bourni and Alexander MramorWider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

  7. Classification of Convex Ancient Solutions to Free Boundary Curve Shortening Flow in Convex Domains

    Theodora Bourni, Nathan Burns and Spencer CatronWider flows

    Topics Curve shortening, Ancient solutions

  8. On the rate of convergence of the -curve shortening flow

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    Topics Curve shortening

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Background reading

The guides for the topics of this paper: what each idea is, why it matters, and the papers to read first.

Curve shortening Wider flows Plane curves moving by their curvature. Convex curves shrink to round points (Gage–Hamilton), and every embedded curve becomes convex first (Grayson). Start with: The heat equation shrinking convex plane curves (Gage et al., 1986) Ancient solutions Solutions that exist for all negative times. Every blow-up of a singularity is one, so classifying ancient solutions means classifying the shapes… Start with: The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications (Perelman, 2002)

In the guidebook

  1. 6A.10
    Curve Shortening and the First Geometric FlowsBook 6A · The Heat Equation and Its Relatives

    Shrinking circles, grim reapers, neckpinches and Huisken’s monotonicity, seen in the plane.

  2. 12C.4
    Loops, Disks and Curve ShrinkingBook 12C · Extinction and the Proof

    Perelman III §§2–3 and Morgan–Tian §§18.3–18.7: π₃ as spheres of loops, minimal disks and the −2π estimate, curve shrinking, ramps in M × S¹ and the estimates that make the argument rigorous.

  3. 11B.2
    Ancient Solutions and the Harnack InequalityBook 11B · Solitons, Compactness and Singularities

    Comparing curvature across space and time.