A local regularity theorem for mean curvature flow with triple edges

DOI10.1515/CRELLE-2017-0044zbMATH Open1431.53101arXiv1605.06592OpenAlexW2964176141WikidataQ125886692 ScholiaQ125886692MaRDI QIDQ2282297FDOQ2282297

Authors: Felix Schulze, Brian White 

Publication date: 7 January 2020

Published in: Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Mean curvature flow of clusters of n-dimensional surfaces in R^{n+k} that meet in triples at equal angles along smooth edges and higher order junctions on lower dimensional faces is a natural extension of classical mean curvature flow. We call such a flow a mean curvature flow with triple edges. We show that if a smooth mean curvature flow with triple edges is weakly close to a static union of three n-dimensional unit density half-planes, then it is smoothly close. Extending the regularity result to a class of integral Brakke flows, we show that this implies smooth short-time existence of the flow starting from an initial surface cluster that has triple edges, but no higher order junctions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06592

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zbMATH Keywords

clusters of \(n\)-dimensional surfacesintegral Brakke flowstriple edges

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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