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Computing critical point evolution under planar curvature flows

Eszter Fehér·Gábor Domokos·Bernd Krasukopf
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We present a numerical method for computing the evolution of a planar, star-shaped curve under a broad class of curvature-driven geometric flows, which we refer to as the Andrews-Bloore flows. This family of flows has two parameters that control one constant and one curvature-dependent component for the velocity in the direction of the normal to the curve. The Andrews-Bloore flow includes as special cases the well known Eikonal, curve-shortening and affine shortening flows, and for positive parameter values its evolution shrinks the area enclosed by the curve to zero in finite time. A question of key interest has been how the shape itself, as well as various shape descriptors evolve as this limit is approached. Star-like curves can be represented by a periodic scalar polar distance function $r(\varphi)$ measured from a reference point. An important question is how the numbers and the trajectories of critical points of the distance function $r(\varphi)$ and of the curvature $\kappa(\varphi)$ evolve under the Andrews-Bloore flows for different choices of the parameters. Our method is specifically designed to meet the challenge of computing accurate trajectories of these critical points up to the vicinity of a limiting shape. Each curve is represented by a piecewise polynomial periodic distance function, as determined by a chosen mesh; different types of meshes and mesh adaptation can be chosen to ensure a good balance between accuracy and computational cost. As we demonstrate with benchmark tests and two longer case studies, our method allows one to perform numerical investigations into subtle questions of planar curve evolution. More specifically we provide illustrations of some known results, numerical evidence for two stated conjectures, as well as new insights and observations regarding the limit shapes of initial curves with different types of symmetry.

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Eszter Fehér, Gábor Domokos, Bernd Krasukopf. 2020-10-21. Computing critical point evolution under planar curvature flows. https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11169

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