{"title":"Deforming locally convex curves into curves of constant k-order width","authors":"Laiyuan Gao , Horst Martini , Deyan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.difgeo.2024.102192","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A nonlocal curvature flow is introduced to evolve locally convex curves in the plane. It is proved that this flow with any initial locally convex curve has a global solution, keeping the local convexity and the elastic energy of the evolving curve, and that, as the time goes to infinity, the curve converges to a smooth, locally convex curve of constant <em>k</em>-order width. In particular, the limiting curve is a multiple circle if and only if the initial locally convex curve is <em>k</em>-symmetric.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51010,"journal":{"name":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","volume":"97 ","pages":"Article 102192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Differential Geometry and its Applications","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926224524000858","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A nonlocal curvature flow is introduced to evolve locally convex curves in the plane. It is proved that this flow with any initial locally convex curve has a global solution, keeping the local convexity and the elastic energy of the evolving curve, and that, as the time goes to infinity, the curve converges to a smooth, locally convex curve of constant k-order width. In particular, the limiting curve is a multiple circle if and only if the initial locally convex curve is k-symmetric.
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Differential Geometry and its Applications publishes original research papers and survey papers in differential geometry and in all interdisciplinary areas in mathematics which use differential geometric methods and investigate geometrical structures. The following main areas are covered: differential equations on manifolds, global analysis, Lie groups, local and global differential geometry, the calculus of variations on manifolds, topology of manifolds, and mathematical physics.