Short time existence and smoothness of the nonlocal mean curvature flow of graphs (Q6583559)

The paper studies the evolution of a surface by nonlocal mean curvature flow, that is, the existence and uniqueness of a family \({\{E(t)\}}_{t>0}\) of open subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^N\) satisfying\N\[\N\partial_t X(t)\cdot\nu(X_t)=-H^\alpha_{E(t)}(X_t), \quad \text{for all }X_t\in\partial E_t\text{ and }t\in[0,T]\N\]\Nwhere \(\nu\) is the normal unit vector to \(\partial E(t)\) and\N\[\NH^\alpha_{E}(x)=\text{P.V.}\int_{\mathbb R^N}\frac{\mathbf{1}_{\mathbb R^N\setminus E}(y)-\mathbf{1}_{E}(y)}{|x-y|^{N+\alpha}}dy, \quad\alpha\in(0,1),\ x\in\partial E.\N\]\NConsidering \(E(t)\) as subgraphs of a sufficiently smooth function \(u(t,\cdot)\), the flow can be described in terms of a quasilinear parabolic equation for \(u\). The first result provides short-time existence, uniqueness, and regularity (and gradient) estimates for \(u\) in this formulation: the low regularity is then pushed to smoothness in a separate theorem. The strategy is based on an analytic semigroup approach.