Mean curvature flow in null hypersurfaces and the detection of MOTS

DOI10.1007/S00220-022-04326-9zbMATH Open1487.53117arXiv2103.16402OpenAlexW3142397116MaRDI QIDQ2113503FDOQ2113503

Henri Roesch, Julian Scheuer

Publication date: 14 March 2022

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the mean curvature flow in 3-dimensional null hypersurfaces. In a spacetime a hypersurface is called null, if its induced metric is degenerate. The speed of the mean curvature flow of spacelike surfaces in a null hypersurface is the projection of the codimension-two mean curvature vector onto the null hypersurface. We impose fairly mild conditions on the null hypersurface. Then for an outer un-trapped initial surface, a condition which resembles the mean-convexity of a surface in Euclidean space, we prove that the mean curvature flow exists for all times and converges smoothly to a marginally outer trapped surface (MOTS). As an application we obtain the existence of a global foliation of the past of an outermost MOTS, provided the null hypersurface admits an un-trapped foliation asymptotically.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16402

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Non-Euclidean differential geometry (53A35) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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