A gradient flow for the p-elastic energy defined on closed planar curves
Abstract
We study the evolution of closed inextensible planar curves under a second order flow that decreases the p-elastic energy. A short time existence result for p ∈ (1,∞) is obtained via a minimizing movements method. For p = 2, that is in the case of the classic elastic energy, long-time existence is retrieved.
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