R440, Astronomy-Mathematics Building, NTU
(台灣大學天文數學館 440室)
On the gradient flow of elastic curves, I
Anna Dall'Acqua (Ulm University)
We introduce the elastic energy functional, that is the one-dimensional analogue to the Willmore energy and we consider the associated gradient flow. We give an overview of some results concerning the global existence of solutions to this flow in the case of closed curves.
