The parametric approach to the Willmore flow

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2022.108257MaRDI QIDQ2125986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesco Palmurella, Tristan Rivière

Publication date 14 April 2022

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

conformal gaugeconformally invariant problemscritical nonlinear 4th-order elliptic and parabolic equationsweak solutionsWillmore gradient flowWillmore surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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