ON THE SHORTENING RATE OF COLLECTIONS OF PLANE CONVEX CURVES BY THE AREA-PRESERVING MEAN CURVATURE FLOW
ON THE SHORTENING RATE OF COLLECTIONS OF PLANE CONVEX CURVES BY THE AREA-PRESERVING MEAN CURVATURE FLOW
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DOI:
10.1137/080721261
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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2
通讯作者:
Dai, Shibin
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作者:
Dai, Shibin
Area-preserving mean curvature flows can be used to model some phase transitions. Geometrically, in the two-dimensional case, they describe the shortening of the curves that are interfaces separating the two phases while preserving the areas of each phase, respectively. Scaling arguments suggest that under the area-preserving mean curvature flow, the rescaled total curve length (L) over tilde (t) decreases as a temporal power law (L) over tilde (t) similar to ct(-1/2), where c is a positive constant. In this paper, we consider the evolution of a collection of nonintersecting smooth convex plane curves, prove a time-averaged lower bound of the decay rate of (L) over tilde which exhibits the aforementioned power law, and get the dependence of the coefficient constant c on the curve shapes.