文摘
In this article, we study the evolution of open inextensible planar curves with hinged ends. We obtain long time existence of C ?/sup>-smooth solutions during the evolution, given the initial curves that are only C 2-smooth with vanishing curvature at the boundary. Moreover, the asymptotic limits of this flow are inextensible elasticae. Our method and result extend the work by Wen (Duke Math. J. 70(3):683-98, 1993).