An expansion of convex hypersurfaces (Q1173922)

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    An expansion of convex hypersurfaces (English)
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    25 June 1992
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    This is a contribution to the topic of `mean curvature flow' and its analogues, but for expanding instead of contracting convex hypersurfaces. The author studies the motion of a smooth, closed, uniformly convex hypersurface in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) expanding in the direction of the outer unit normal vector, with speed given by a suitable function of the principal radii of curvature. The latter function is assumed to be symmetric, positive, homogeneous of degree one, and concave. It is proved that a smooth solution exists, the hypersurface remains smooth and uniformly convex for all time and that after suitable normalization it converges to a round sphere. The author's approach involves studying the evolution equation satisfied by the support function of the expanding hypersurface.
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    curvature flow
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    round sphere
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    evolution equation
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