Interior estimates and longtime solutions for mean curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space (Q1383639)

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Interior estimates and longtime solutions for mean curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space
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    Interior estimates and longtime solutions for mean curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space (English)
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    25 March 1999
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    For entire graphs defining spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space which are moving by mean curvature, the author proves the following Theorem: For any smooth initial data \(u_0:{\mathbb R}^n\to{\mathbb R}\) defining a spacelike hypersurface the mean curvature flow has a smooth spacelike solution for all \(t>0\). The proof is done by solving corresponding boundary value problems on increasing domains of radius \(k\) and selecting a converging subsequence of solutions for \(k\to\infty\). The longtime existence of solutions for these boundary value problems is shown in the first part of the paper by deriving appropriate interior estimates.
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    mean curvature flow
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    Minkowski space
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    spacelike hypersurface
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    longtime existence of solutions
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    interior estimates
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