Soliton Solutions to the Curvature Flow on the 2-dimensional De Sitter Space and Applications

Abstract

We show that the spacelike solutions to the curvature flow for curves on the De Sitter space are in correspondence with the solutions to the inverse curvature flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic space, that on the De Sitter space, the timelike solutions to the curvature flow are in correspondence with the timelike solutions to the inverse curvature flow, and that the solutions curve shortening flow on the 2-dimensional hyperbolic space are in correspondence with the solutions to the spacelike solutions to the inverse curvature flow on the De Sitter space. We prove that, for spacelike curves on the De Sitter space, the curvature flow is a gradient-type flow for the arc-length functional. We observe that a spacelike or timelike curve on the De Sitter space is a soliton solution to the curvature flow (resp. inverse curvature flow) if and only if its curvature (resp. inverse of its curvature) can be written as the inner product between its tangent vector field and a fixed vector $v$ of the 3-dimensional Minkowski space. We prove that for each vector $v$, there exists a 2-parameter family of timelike (spacelike) soliton solutions to the curvature flow and to the inverse curvature flow on the De Sitter space. We show that there exists no non-trivial complete timelike soliton. There exist non-trivial complete spacelike solutions. As a consequence of curvature flow, we obtain the behavior of the soliton solutions to the inverse curvature flow on the De Sitter space and hyperbolic space.