Volume preserving flow and Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities in hyperbolic space (Q2039582)

In this work the author considers a flow of hypersurfaces in order to obtain geometric inequalities. In the first part of the article, the flows preserving the volume by a family of curvature functions comprising the positive powers of the $k$-th mean curvatures are considered. It is stated that if the initial hypersurface $M_0$ is smooth and closed and has positive sectional curvatures, then the solution $M_t$ of the flow has a positive sectional curvature for all time $t>0$, exists for all time and converges to a geodesic exponential sphere. As a consequence of this convergence the author extends certain inequalities of Alexandrov-Fenchel known for horospherically convex hypersurfaces, remaining true under weaker conditions of positive sectional curvature. The second part of this work is devoted to the analysis of the flow for strictly $h$-convex hypersurfaces in which the speed is homogeneous as a function of the shifted Weingarten matrix of $M_t$, rather than the Weingarten matrix. These flows make it possible to obtain a new class of integral inequalities for horospherically convex hypersurfaces. For understanding these new functionals the author introduces some new machinery for horospherically convex regions, including a horospherical Gauss map and a horospherical support function. He also develops an interesting connection between flows of $h$-convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space by functions of principal curvatures, and conformal flows of conformally flat metrics on $S^n$ by functions of the eigenvalues of the Schouten tensor. This allows the author to translate his results to convergence theorems for metric flows, and his isoperimetric inequalities to corresponding results for conformally flat metrics.