Regularity and stability results for the level set flow via the mean curvature flow with surgery (Q2142719)

A mean curvature flow can be seen as a gradient flow of an area functional and generally develops singularities. Several different notions of weak solutions of mean curvature flows have been developed, as for example in [\textit{K. A. Brakke}, The motion of a surface by its mean curvature. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (1978; Zbl 0386.53047); \textit{L. C. Evans} and \textit{J. Spruck}, J. Differ. Geom. 33, No. 3, 635--681 (1991; Zbl 0726.53029); \textit{Y.-G. Chen} et al., J. Differ. Geom. 33, No. 3, 749--786 (1991; Zbl 0696.35087); \textit{T. Illmanen}, Mem. Am. Math. Soc. 108 (1994)]. An important approach for mean curvature flows is the surgery technique developed by \textit{G. Huisken} and \textit{C. Sinestrari} [Invent. Math. 175, No. 1, 137--221 (2009; Zbl 1170.53042)] and by \textit{S. Brendle} and \textit{G. Huisken} [Invent. Math. 203, No. 2, 615--654 (2016; Zbl 1381.53113)] for the surface case. See also [\textit{R. Haslhofer} and \textit{B. Kleiner}, Duke Math. J. 166, No. 9, 1591--1626 (2017; Zbl 1370.53046)]. In this article the author uses the surgery technique to derive regularity estimates for the level set flow under certain special conditions. A stability result for the plane under the level set flow is established too. There are three main theorems in this article. In Theorem 1.1 and Theorem 1.2 the author proves a general short-time existence for a localized flow and the convergence to a level set flow. In Theorem 1.3 the author proves a highly non-trivial local Brakke regularity-type theorem for the level set flow.