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Research Report MRR97-046

The affine curve-lengthening flow

Ben Andrews

Abstract: The motion of any smooth closed convex curve in the plane in the direction of steepest increase of its affine arc length can be continued smoothly for all time. The evolving curve remains strictly convex while expanding to infinite size and approaching a homothetically expanding ellipse.


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