Flow of real hypersurfaces by the trace of the Levi form

DOI10.4310/MRL.1999.V6.N6.A5MaRDI QIDQ1574745zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Gerhard Huisken, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 13 August 2000

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.1999.V6.N6.A5

zbMATH Keywords

evolutionLevi formmean curvature flowreal hypersurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Real submanifolds in complex manifolds (32V40) Other partial differential equations of complex analysis in several variables (32W50) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Review text

The authors study a Cauchy-Riemann analogue of the mean curvature flow in Riemannian geometry. They consider the deformation of a closed real hypersurface of a complex manifold in the normal direction at a speed given at each point by the trace of the Levi form. The evolution is described by a weakly parabolic system. The main difficulty comes from the fact that the trace of the Levi form behaves like a degenerate quasi-elliptic second order differential operator. The authors prove short time existence and smoothness of the solution as long as the curvature remains uniformly bounded with its first derivatives. A barrier principle is established for distinct solution of the flow and it is shown that embeddability is preserved under the flow. In the case \(n=2\) they prove that weakly pseudoconvex hypersurfaces become stricly pseudoconvex instantaneously, providing a canonical approximation.

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