Stability of translating solutions to mean curvature flow (Q885807)

The authors consider rotationally symmetric strictly convex translating solutions \(u: {\mathbb R}^n \times (0, \infty) \to {\mathbb R}\), \(n \geq 2\), to the graphical mean curvature flow equation \[ \dot u = \sqrt{1 + | \nabla u| ^2} \,\text{ div}\left({\nabla u}\over{\sqrt{1 + | \nabla u| ^2}}\right). \] The main result is the following theorem. Let \(U: {\mathbb R}^n \times [0, \infty) \to {\mathbb R}\), \(n \geq 2\), be an entire rotationally symmetric, strictly convex solution to the mean curvature flow, translating with speed \(\dot U \equiv 1\). Let \(u_0: {\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb R}\) be a continuous function such that \[ \lim_{| x| \to \infty}(u_0(x) - U(x, 0)) = 0. \] Then there exists a function \(u \in C^\infty({\mathbb R}^n \times (0, \infty)) \cap C^0({\mathbb R}^n \times [0, \infty))\) with \(u(\cdot, 0) = u_0\) solving the graphical mean curvature equation for positive times. As time tends to infinity, \[ u(\cdot, t) - U(\cdot, t) \to 0 \] uniformly on \({\mathbb R}^n\).