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The Euler-Lagrange equation and heat flow for the Möbius energy

✍ Scribed by Zheng-Xu He

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
175 KB
Volume
53
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-3640

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✦ Synopsis

We prove the following results:

  1. A unique smooth solution exists for a short time for the heat equation associated with the Möbius energy of loops in a euclidean space, starting with any simple smooth loop. 2. A critical loop of the energy is smooth if it has cube-integrable curvature.

Combining this with an earlier result of M. Freedman, Z. Wang, and the author, we show that any local minimizer of the energy must be smooth. 3. Circles are the only two-dimensional critical loops with cube-integrable curvature. The technique also applies to a family of other knot energies. Similar problems are open for energies of surfaces or, more generally, for embedded submanifolds in a fixed Riemannian manifold.

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