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    mathematics, the curve-shortening flow is a process that modifies a smooth curve in the Euclidean plane by moving its points perpendicularly to the curve at a speed...
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    simplest context for curve shortening flow. Using the maximum principle as applied to the distance between two points on a curve, they proved that if...
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  • identical with the curve shortening flow. The mean curvature flow is a different geometric flow which also has the curve shortening flow as a special case...
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    Tennis ball theorem (category Theorems about curves)
    the curve-shortening flow, a process for continuously moving the points of the curve towards their local centers of curvature. Applying this flow to the...
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  • flow, as in soap films; critical points are minimal surfaces Curve-shortening flow, the one-dimensional case of the mean curvature flow Willmore flow...
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  • mean curvature flow. Related flows are: Curve-shortening flow, the one-dimensional case of mean curvature flow the surface tension flow the Lagrangian...
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  • at the University of Rochester. He is known for his work on the curve-shortening flow, and in particular for the Gage–Hamilton–Grayson theorem, proved...
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  • Ricci flow on each of these pieces. This procedure is known as Ricci flow with surgery. Perelman provided a separate argument based on curve shortening flow...
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    work on heat equations in Riemannian geometry. Caloric polynomial Curve-shortening flow Diffusion equation Relativistic heat conduction Schrödinger equation...
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  • In the study of the curve-shortening flow, in which each point of a curve in the Euclidean plane moves perpendicularly to the curve, with speed proportional...
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  • only compact convex ancient solutions other than circles for the curve-shortening flow. Angenent was raised in Haarlem, the Netherlands. He obtained his...
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  • isoperimetric problem is a zero wind speed case of Chaplygin problem Curve-shortening flow Expander graph Gaussian isoperimetric inequality Isoperimetric dimension...
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  • 1 through 4 concern the heat equation and the curve-shortening flow defined from it, in which a curve moves in the Euclidean plane, perpendicularly to...
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  • a shape is. The curve-shortening flow decreases the isoperimetric ratio of any smooth convex curve so that, in the limit as the curve shrinks to a point...
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  • mean curvature flow. Its existence shows that, unlike the one-dimensional curve-shortening flow (for which every embedded closed curve converges to a...
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  • Natasa (2010), "Classification of compact ancient solutions to the curve shortening flow", Journal of Differential Geometry, 84 (3): 455–464, arXiv:0806...
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    of curves and surfaces under different processes that change them continuously. For instance, the curve-shortening flow is a process in which curves in...
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  • speaking in the differential geometry section on the curve-shortening flow and mean curvature flow. In 2012, he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows...
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  • surface. Lyusternik–Fet theorem Theorem of the three geodesics Curve-shortening flow Selberg trace formula Selberg zeta function Zoll surface Besse,...
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  • convex curve, and greater than 2π whenever the curve has any non-convexities. When a smooth simple closed curve undergoes the curve-shortening flow, its...
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  • called the twisted majority rule. Symmetric under on-off reversal. Approximates the curve-shortening flow on the boundaries between live and dead cells....
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    irrelevant for analysis of the geometrization conjecture but uses curve-shortening flow to provide a simpler argument for the special case of the Poincaré...
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  • solution was provided in the 1980s by Grayson, by means of the curve shortening flow A strengthened version of the theorem states that, on any Riemannian...
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  • Science Talent Search (Cunningham 2007). Curve-shortening flow, a continuous transformation of a closed curve in the plane that eventually convexifies...
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    Mathematica 164 (1990), no. 1–2, 29–71. C L Epstein, M Gage, The curve shortening flow. Wave motion: theory, modelling, and computation (Berkeley, Calif...
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    either straight or curved. The term hinge line has also been used for this feature. A fold surface seen perpendicular to its shortening direction can be...
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    data can be used in a flow-versus-time graph. The area under the flow-versus-time curve for one cardiac cycle is the stroke volume. The length of the cardiac...
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    In pathology, a contracture is a shortening of muscles, tendons, skin, and nearby soft tissues that causes the joints to shorten and become very stiff...
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    membraneous. During each cardiac cycle the interventricular septum contracts by shortening longitudinally and becoming thicker. The interventricular septum is the...
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  • Mechanical strains are caused by mechanical stress, see stress-strain curve. The relationship between stress and strain is generally linear and reversible...
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