{"title":"On bounds of entropy and total curvature for ancient curve shortening flows","authors":"Wei-Bo Su, Kai-Wei Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10455-025-10019-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are one-dimensional mean curvature flows. As an application, we give a short proof of the uniqueness and classification of tangent flow at infinity of an ancient smooth complete non-compact curve shortening flow with finite entropy embedded in <span>\\(\\mathbb {R}^2\\)</span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":8268,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","volume":"68 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10455-025-10019-y.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10455-025-10019-y","RegionNum":3,"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
Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are one-dimensional mean curvature flows. As an application, we give a short proof of the uniqueness and classification of tangent flow at infinity of an ancient smooth complete non-compact curve shortening flow with finite entropy embedded in \(\mathbb {R}^2\).
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This journal examines global problems of geometry and analysis as well as the interactions between these fields and their application to problems of theoretical physics. It contributes to an enlargement of the international exchange of research results in the field.
The areas covered in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry include: global analysis, differential geometry, complex manifolds and related results from complex analysis and algebraic geometry, Lie groups, Lie transformation groups and harmonic analysis, variational calculus, applications of differential geometry and global analysis to problems of theoretical physics.