Convergence to the grim reaper for a curvature flow with unbounded boundary slopes

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Abstract: We consider a curvature flow V=H in the band domain Omega:=[1,1]imesR, where, for a graphic curve Gammat, V denotes its normal velocity and H denotes its curvature. If Gammat contacts the two boundaries partialpmOmega of Omega with constant slopes, in 1993, Altschular and Wu cite{AW1} proved that Gammat converges to a {it grim reaper} contacting partialpmOmega with the same prescribed slopes. In this paper we consider the case where Gammat contacts partialpmOmega with slopes equaling to pm1 times of its height. When the curve moves to infinity, the global gradient estimate is impossible due to the unbounded boundary slopes. We first consider a special symmetric curve and derive its uniform interior gradient estimates by using the zero number argument, and then use these estimates to present uniform interior gradient estimates for general non-symmetric curves, which lead to the convergence of the curve in Cloc2,1((1,1)imesR) topology to the {it grim reaper} with span (1,1).



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