Geometric evolution equations for hypersurfaces

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The first part of this article is a survey on various geometric evolution equations for hypersurfaces \(d/dt F(p,t)=-f\nu(p,t)\), where \(F\) is a (smooth) family of immersions of hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold, \(\nu\) is a choice of unit normal, and the speed function \(f\) is assumed to be a smooth homogeneous symmetric function of the principal curvatures \(\lambda_1,\dots ,\lambda_n\) of the hypersurface at \(F(p,t)\). Among those cases treated in this paper one finds the mean curvature flow \(f=-H=-(\lambda_1+\dots +\lambda_n)\), the inverse mean curvature flow \(f=1/H\) and fully nonlinear flows such as the Gauss curvature flow \(f=-K=-(\lambda_1\cdots\lambda_n)\) or the harmonic mean curvature flow \(f=-(\lambda_1^{-1}+\dots +\lambda_n^{-1})\). The second part of this article provides a selfcontained proof of shorttime existence for a variety of geometric evolution equations, containing hypersurface evolutions, conformal deformations of metrics and higher order flows such as the \(L^2\)-gradient flow for the Willmore functional. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00029].




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