The inverse mean curvature flow in warped cylinders of non-positive radial curvature (Q728249)

The paper under review deals with the inverse mean curvature flow \[ \dot x=\dfrac{1}{H}\nu \] in an ambient smooth Riemannian manifolds of the form \(([R_0,\infty)\times \mathbb{S}^n,\bar g)\) with metric \(\bar g=dr^2+\theta(r)\sigma_{\mathbb{S}^n}\) where \(\theta\in C^\infty([R_0,\infty),\mathbb{R}_+),\) and non-positive radial sectional curvature, that is, \(\theta''\geq 0,\) \(\theta'>0\) \(\forall r>R_0.\) The author proves that for initial mean-convex graphs over \(\mathbb{S}^n\) the flow exists for all times and remains a graph over \(\mathbb{S}^n.\) Further weak assumptions on the ambient manifold allow to derive optimal decay of the gradient and to show that the flow leaves become umbilic exponentially fast. Optimal \(C^2\)-estimates are given as well when the ambient pinching improves.