Evolution of hypersurfaces by the mean curvature minus an external force field (Q2372519): Difference between revisions

In this paper the authors study the evolution of hypersurface moving by the mean curvature minus an external force field. The authors consider the following flow: \[ \frac{dF}{dt}=-(H-\langle\overline{ \nabla }\omega ,\nu\rangle) \nu \equiv -f\nu , \] where \[ F_t:=F(\cdot ,t):M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \] is a family of smooth immersions with \(M_t=F_t(M) \) and \(M\) is a compact orientated hypersurface in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), \(H\) denotes the mean curvature of \(M_t\) and \(\overline{\nabla }\omega \) is the standard gradient field of a smooth function \(\omega \) in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}.\) The authors shows that the flow will blow up in a finite time for a general \( \omega \) if the mean curvature of the initial surface is larger than some constant depending on the boundness of derivatives of the external force field \((\overline{\nabla }^2\omega ,\overline{\nabla }^3\omega) \). In the case of a linear force, the authors prove that the convexity of the hypersurface is preserved during the evolution and the flow has a unique smooth solution in any finite time and expands to infinity as the time tends to infinity if the initial curvature is smaller than the slope of the force.