Evolution of nonparametric surfaces with speed depending on curvature function

Publication date 31 October 2001

Published in Journal of Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

asymptotic behaviour fully nonlinear parabolic equations

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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In recent work the authors [Northeast. Math. J. 15, No. 3, 301-314 (1999)] proved the existence of classical solutions of fully nonlinear, nonuniformly parabolic equations of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE -D_tu = {{\psi(x,t)}\over{f(\kappa(u))}} \quad\text{in}\quad \Omega\times(0,\infty) \leqno(*) NEWLINE\]NEWLINE subject to the first initial-boundary condition. Here \(\Omega\) is a smooth strictly convex subdomain of \({\mathbb R}^n\), \(\kappa(u)\) denotes the principal curvatures \(\kappa_1,\dots,\kappa_n\) of the graph of \(u\), \(\psi\) is a positive function, and \(f\) is a symmetric positive function satisfying a number of conditions. A typical example is \(f=(S_k)^{1/k}\), where for any integer between \(1\) and \(n\), \(S_k\) is the \(k\)-th elementary symmetric function. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEHere the authors investigate the asymptotic behaviour of these solutions as \(t\rightarrow\infty\). Under suitable assumptions on the data they show that \(u(\cdot,t)\) converges to a solution \(w\) of an elliptic equation closely related to \((*)\). In the radially symmetric case \(w\) is a portion of a hemisphere.

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