Evolution of Contractions between Non-Compact Manifolds

Abstract: Let

N

be a complete manifold with bounded geometry, such that

s e c_{N} l e - s i g m a < 0

for some positive constant

s i g m a

. We investigate the mean curvature flow of the graphs of smooth length-decreasing maps

f : m a t h b b R^{m} o N

. In this case, the solution exists for all times and the evolving submanifold stays the graph of a length-decreasing map

f_{t}

. We further prove uniform decay estimates for all derivatives of order

g e 2

of

f_{t}

along the flow.

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