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Which shapes can appear in a Curve Shortening Flow Singularity?

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We study possible tangles that can occur in singularities of solutions to plane Curve Shortening Flow. We exhibit solutions in which more complicated tangles with more than one self-intersection disappear into a singular point. It seems that there are many examples of this kind and that a complete classification presents a problem similar to the problem of classifying all knots in $\mathbb R^3$. As a particular example, we introduce the so-called $n$-loop curves, which generalize Matt Grayson's Figure-Eight curve, and we conjecture a generalization of the Coiculescu-Schwarz asymptotic bow-tie result, namely, a vanishing $n$-loop, when rescaled anisotropically to fit a square bounding box, converges to a "squeezed bow-tie," i.e. the curve $\{(x, y) : |x|\leq 1, y=\pm x^{n-1}\}\cup\{(\pm 1, y) : |y|\leq 1\}$. As evidence in support of the conjecture, we provide a formal asymptotic analysis on one hand, and a numerical simulation for the cases $n=3$ and $n=4$ on the other.

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Survey of Specialized Large Language Model

cs.CL · 2025-08-27 · conditional · novelty 2.0

A survey of 24 specialized LLMs (2022-2025) claims a shift from domain fine-tuning to native architectures, but the synthesis is undermined by citation errors and selection bias.

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  • Survey of Specialized Large Language Model cs.CL · 2025-08-27 · conditional · none · ref 49 · internal anchor

    A survey of 24 specialized LLMs (2022-2025) claims a shift from domain fine-tuning to native architectures, but the synthesis is undermined by citation errors and selection bias.