Boundary value problems for rotationally symmetric mean curvature flows (Q2474110)

The author deals with the motion of surfaces by their mean curvature in the case in which the initial surface has rotational symmetry. The author give boundary conditions which enforce the formation of a singularity in finite timeThe paper is structured in three sections. In Section 1 the author consider a differentiable and positive real function \(u_0:\left[ 0,a\right] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) and formulate the problem of finding maps \(u\left( \cdot ,t\right) :\left[ 0,a\right] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\left( t>0\right) \) such that for some \(T>0\) \[ V\left( t\right) =H\left( t\right) \text{ on }\Gamma _t\times \left( 0,T\right) \tag{1} \] and \(u\left( \cdot ,0\right) =u_0,\) where \(\Gamma _t\) is the hypersurface obtained by rotating the graph of \( u\left( \cdot ,t\right) \) around \(x\)-axis, \(V\left( t\right) \) stands for the normal velocity of the family \(\left\{ \Gamma _t;t>0\right\} \) and \[ H\left( t\right) =k_1+k_2=-\frac{u_{xx}}{\left( 1+u_x^2\right) ^{\frac 32}} +\frac 1{u\left( 1+u_x^2\right) ^{\frac 12}} \] is the mean curvature of the surface \(\Gamma _t.\) The equation \(\left( 1\right) \) is reduced to \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\frac{u_{xx}}{1+u_x^2}-\frac 1u.\tag{2} \] In Section 2, the author consider the equation \(\left( 2\right) \) under the Neumann conditions \[ u_x\left( 0,t\right) =0,\,\,u_x\left( a,t\right) =g\left( t\right) , \] where \(g\in C^\infty \left( \left( 0,\infty \right) ,\left[ 0,\infty \right) \right) \) is a non-increasing function, and proves the formation of a singularity at one of the ends \(0\) or \(a\), in the sense that if the first curvature term \(k_1\left( x,t\right) \) is bounded in \(a\) then \(k_2\left( x,t\right) \) is unbounded in \(0\) which means that \(u\left( 0,t\right) \rightarrow 0,t\nearrow T.\) In Section 3 the author obtain results for the equation \(\left( 2\right) \) under mixed problem conditions.