Some Properties of the Curve Straightening Flow in the Plane

DOI10.2307/2001400zbMath0675.58033OpenAlexW4235286281MaRDI QIDQ3830271

Anders Linnér

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2001400

zbMATH Keywords

nonconvexself-intersectionsstrictly convex curvesgradient of the total squared curvature functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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