Conjecture on dynamically stable solutions for curve diffusion, elastic, and ideal flows
Conjecture on dynamically stable solutions for curve diffusion, elastic, and ideal flows
A planar curve is dynamically stable if there exists an such that every curve with generates a solution trajectory converging, modulo similarity transformation, to . The curve diffusion flow, elastic flow, and ideal flow are geometric flows for planar curves.
Stability classification conjecture. The only dynamically stable solutions are circles for the curve diffusion flow; multiply-covered lemniscates of Bernoulli and multiply-covered circles for the elastic flow; and multiply-covered ideal lemniscates and multiply-covered circles for the ideal flow.
The conjecture concerns the dynamical stability of homothetic solutions. Its ideal-flow assertion presupposes the rigorous discovery of an ideal lemniscate, a self-similarly expanding figure-eight-type solution, which the source states has not yet been established.
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Ben Andrews and Glen Wheeler, “Jellyfish exist”, arXiv:2601.21227 (2026).
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