Evolution of curvature invariants and lifting integrability

Invariantizing the formal symmetry condition for curve evolutions yield a syzygy between different evolution invariants. We prove that the condition for two curvature evolutions to commute appears as a differential consequence of this syzygy. This implies that integrability of the curvature evolution lifts to integrability of the curve evolution, whenever the kernel of a particular differential operator is empty. We exhibit various examples to illustrate the theorem; the calculations involved in verifying the result are substantial.