Highly degenerate harmonic mean curvature flow

DOI10.1007/S00526-008-0209-YzbMATH Open1179.35174arXiv0804.3936OpenAlexW2168051524MaRDI QIDQ1016548FDOQ1016548

Authors: Panagiota Daskalopoulos, M. Cristina Caputo 

Publication date: 6 May 2009

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the evolution of a weakly convex surface $Sigm{a}_0$ in $R^3$ with flat sides by the Harmonic Mean Curvature flow. We establish the short time existence as well as the optimal regularity of the surface and we show that the boundaries of the flat sides evolve by the curve shortening flow. It follows from our results that a weakly convex surface with flat sides of class $C^{k,gamma}$, for some $kinmathbbN$ and $0<gammaleq1$, remains in the same class under the flow. This distinguishes this flow from other, previously studied, degenerate parabolic equations, including the porous medium equation and the Gauss curvature flow with flat sides, where the regularity of the solution for $t>0$ does not depend on the regularity of the initial data.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3936

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zbMATH Keywords

degenerate parabolic equationscurve shortening flowconvex surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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