The parametric approach to the Willmore flow

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108257zbMATH Open1503.53168arXiv2012.11419OpenAlexW4213426410MaRDI QIDQ2125986FDOQ2125986

Authors: Francesco Palmurella, Tristan Rivière 

Publication date: 14 April 2022

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a parametric framework for the study of Willmore gradient flows which enables to consider a general class of weak, energy-level solutions and opens the possibility to study energy quantization and finite-time singularities. We restrict in this first work to a small-energy regime and prove that, for small-energy weak immersions, the Cauchy problem in this class admits a unique solution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11419

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zbMATH Keywords

weak solutionsWillmore surfacesconformal gaugeconformally invariant problemscritical nonlinear 4th-order elliptic and parabolic equationsWillmore gradient flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Higher-order elliptic systems (35J48) Higher-order parabolic systems (35K41) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Semilinear parabolic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35K91) Geometric quantization (53D50) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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