Evolution equations for shapes and geometries
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Evolution equations for shapes and geometries
zbMATH Open document ID: 1109.35025
published in: Journal of Evolution Equations
publication date: 2007-01-24T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors consider the evolution problem \(dx(t)/dt=V(t,x(t))\), where \(V\) is a given velocity field in \(L^{\infty }(]0,\tau [ ,C_{0}^{0,1}( \overline{D},\mathbb{R}^{N}))\), at least, where \(D\) is an open subset of \( \mathbb{R}^{N}\) with Lipschitz boundary. The solution \(x\) starts from a given data \(x_{0}\) at \(t=0\). The authors define the transformation mapping \( T_{t}\) from \(D\) to \(D\) through \(T_{t}(x_{0})=x(t)\). For any measurable subset \(\Omega \) of \(D\), they finally define the domain \(\Omega _{t}=T_{t}(\Omega )\). The first main result of the paper proves some continuity and differentiability properties of the functions defined through \(t\mapsto \int_{\Omega _{t}}\varphi\,dx\), for every \(\varphi \in L^{1}(D)\). Then the authors prove that the characteristic function \(\chi \) of \(\Omega _{t}\) is the solution of the first-order differential equation \(d\chi (t)/dt+\nabla \chi (t)\cdot V=0\), \(\chi \) starting from the characteristic function of \(\Omega \) at \(t=0\). The next part of the paper proves quite similar similar results but for the characteristic function of the boundary \( \Gamma _{t}\) of \(\Omega _{t}\). A weak formulation of this equation is introduced. In the last part of the paper, the authors introduce the oriented distance function \(b_{\Omega }=d_{\Omega }-d_{\complement \Omega }\) . The last main result of the paper proves that \(b_{\Omega _{t}}\) is the solution of a quite similar first-order evolution equation, which involves the projection on \(\Gamma _{t}\). Here \(\Omega \) is supposed to have a thin boundary.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35F10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 35R35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49J53
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 49Q10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 76D27
zbMATH DE Number: 5118022
zbMATH Keywords: boundary measure
zbMATH Keywords: characteristic function
zbMATH Keywords: oriented distance function
zbMATH Keywords: Courant metric
zbMATH Keywords: thin boundary
author: Michel C. Delfour
author: J. P. Zolesio
reviewed by: Alain Brillard
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s00028-006-0257-8
OpenAlex ID: W2059906427
DOI: 10.1007/S00028-006-0257-8
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