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The 'traditional' curve-straightening flow is based on one of the standard Sobolev inner products and it is known to break certain symmetries of reflection. The purpose of this paper is to show that there are alternative Riemannian structures on the space of curves that yield flows that preserve symmetries. This feature comes at a price. In one symmetrizing metric the gradient vector fields are considerably more demanding to compute. In another symmetrizing metric smoothness is lost. This investigation will also explain the phenomena of 'spinning' as observed in several examples in the traditional flow. Three classes of alternative Riemannian structures are examined. The first class includes the traditional metric as a special case and is shown to never preserve both rotation symmetries and symmetries of reflection. The second class consists of a single metric corresponding to one of the standard Sobolev metrics, and is shown to preserve both types of symmetries. The third class also includes the traditional metric but it is shown that there is a unique different metric in this class, which preserves both types of symmetries. This particular metric generally yields smooth vector fi

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Author

Anders Linnér

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0926-2245)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)