On stability of the catenoid under vanishing mean curvature flow on Minkowski space (Q353423): Difference between revisions

From the text: ``We study here radial perturbations of the static catenoid solution to the hyperbolic vanishing mean curvature flow which are supported far away from the `collar' of the catenoid. We show that under a universal smallness assumption, a large class of such perturbations leads to solutions which exist `until the perturbation reaches the collar'. Thus for these solutions any potential instability only sets in once the `collar starts to move'.'' The precise statement is too technical to be presented here. The proof relies on a fairly long energy estimate.