Minimal surface generating flow for space curves of non-vanishing torsion

Jiří Minarčík; Michal Beneš

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2022011

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2022, Volume 27, Issue 11: 6605-6617. Doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2022011

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Minimal surface generating flow for space curves of non-vanishing torsion

Jiří Minarčík^, and
Michal Beneš

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Trojanova 13, Prague, 12000, Czech Republic

^* Corresponding author: Jiří Minarčík
^* Corresponding author: Jiří Minarčík

Received: October 2020

Revised: December 2021

Early access: January 2022

Published: November 2022

Short acknowledgement.
This work was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under the OP RDE grant number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 019/0000753 "Research centre for low-carbon energy technologies"

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This article introduces new geometric flow for space curves with positive curvature and torsion. Curves evolving according to this motion law trace out a zero mean curvature surface. First, the geometry of surfaces defined as trajectories of moving curves is analyzed and the minimal surface generating flow is derived. Then, an upper bound for the area of the generated minimal surface and for the terminating time of the flow is provided.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 53A10, 53A04; Secondary: 53A05, 49Q05.

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Figure 1. Numerical solution to (11-13) with the initial condition given by (25). The curvature $ \kappa $ vanishes at $ t_{max} = 0.20628 $. The curves $ \Gamma_0 $ and $ \Gamma_{max} $ were reconstructed from $ \kappa $, $ \tau $ and $ g $. The position and orientation was partially recovered using Principal component analysis. However, the rotation around the $ z $-axis was not preserved

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