A Short Note on Contracting Self-Similar Solutions of the Curve Shortening Flow
Abstract
By the curve shortening flow, the only closed embedded contracting self-similar solutions are circles: we give a very short and intuitive geometric proof of this basic and classical result using an idea of Gage.
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