We study curve motion by the binormal flow with curvature and torsion depending velocity and sweeping out immersed surfaces. Using the Gauss-Codazzi equations, we obtain filaments evolving with constant torsion which arise from extremal curves of curvature energy functionals. They are “soliton” solutions in the sense that they evolve without changing shape.
We classify all rotational surfaces in Euclidean space whose principal curvatures κ1 and κ2 satisfy the linear relation κ1=aκ2+b, where a and b are two constants. As a consequence of this classification, we find closed (embedded and not embedded) surfaces and periodic (embedded and not embedded) surfaces with a geometric behaviour similar to Delaunay surfaces. Finally, we give a variational characterization of the generating curves of these surfaces.
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