Evolution of hypersurfaces by the mean curvature minus an external force field (Q2372519)

In this paper the authors study the evolution of hypersurface moving by the mean curvature minus an external force field. The authors consider the following flow: \[ \frac{dF}{dt}=-(H-\langle\overline{ \nabla }\omega ,\nu\rangle) \nu \equiv -f\nu , \] where \[ F_t:=F(\cdot ,t):M\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1} \] is a family of smooth immersions with \(M_t=F_t(M) \) and \(M\) is a compact orientated hypersurface in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\), \(H\) denotes the mean curvature of \(M_t\) and \(\overline{\nabla }\omega \) is the standard gradient field of a smooth function \(\omega \) in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}.\) The authors shows that the flow will blow up in a finite time for a general \( \omega \) if the mean curvature of the initial surface is larger than some constant depending on the boundness of derivatives of the external force field \((\overline{\nabla }^2\omega ,\overline{\nabla }^3\omega) \). In the case of a linear force, the authors prove that the convexity of the hypersurface is preserved during the evolution and the flow has a unique smooth solution in any finite time and expands to infinity as the time tends to infinity if the initial curvature is smaller than the slope of the force.