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

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-01991-XzbMATH Open1471.35190arXiv1907.11535OpenAlexW3186072856WikidataQ115386606 ScholiaQ115386606MaRDI QIDQ2048874FDOQ2048874

Xiaoliu Wang, Li-Xia Yuan, Bendong Lou

Publication date: 24 August 2021

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

Abstract: We consider a curvature flow $V=H$ in the band domain $Omega:=[-1,1]imesR$, where, for a graphic curve $Gamm{a}_t$, $V$ denotes its normal velocity and $H$ denotes its curvature. If $Gamm{a}_t$ contacts the two boundaries $partia{l}_{p}mOmega$ of $Omega$ with constant slopes, in 1993, Altschular and Wu cite{AW1} proved that $Gamm{a}_t$ converges to a {it grim reaper} contacting $partia{l}_{p}mOmega$ with the same prescribed slopes. In this paper we consider the case where $Gamm{a}_t$ contacts $partia{l}_{p}mOmega$ 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 $C_{loc}^{2,1}((-1,1)imesR)$ topology to the {it grim reaper} with span $(-1,1)$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11535

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zbMATH Keywords

band domainunbounded boundary slopeszero number argument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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