The Curve Shortening Problem
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: March 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781584882138
Subjects: Algebra; Applied mathematics; Differential & Riemannian geometry; Differential Equations; Hamiltonian systems; Engineering - General; Differentiable Dynamical Systems; Differential Geometry; Science/Mathematics; Mathematics; Geometry - Differential; Geometry - Algebraic; Flows (Differentiable dynamica; Algebra - General; Mathematics / Geometry / General; Curves on surfaces; Flows (Differentiable dynamical systems)
First sentence: In this chapter, we first establish the existence of a maximal solution and some basic qualitative behaviour such as the separation principle and finiteness of nodes for the general flow (1.2).