Gauss curvature flow with shrinking obstacle (Q6583567)

The authors consider viscosity solutions of an \(\alpha\)-Gauss curvature flow with an obstacle in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\). The obstacle \(\Phi(t)\), which is enclosed by the initial hypersurface \(\Sigma_{0}\), will block collapsing of the hypersurface under the flow. The authors prove the existence and uniqueness of the solution for all dimensions and \(\alpha>0\), which has the optimal \(C^{1,1}\) regularity. Moreover, after a finite time \(T^{*}\) depending only on \(n,\alpha,\Sigma_{0}\) and \(\Phi\), the solution \(\Sigma_{t}\) will be equal to the obstacle \(\Phi\). The authors also prove the \(C^{1}\) regularity of free boundaries under a uniform thickness condition when \(\alpha\leq1/n\).