Interior estimates and longtime solutions for mean curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space (Q1383639): Difference between revisions

For entire graphs defining spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space which are moving by mean curvature, the author proves the following Theorem: For any smooth initial data \(u_0:{\mathbb R}^n\to{\mathbb R}\) defining a spacelike hypersurface the mean curvature flow has a smooth spacelike solution for all \(t>0\). The proof is done by solving corresponding boundary value problems on increasing domains of radius \(k\) and selecting a converging subsequence of solutions for \(k\to\infty\). The longtime existence of solutions for these boundary value problems is shown in the first part of the paper by deriving appropriate interior estimates.