Two-sided non-collapsing curvature flows

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201310_001zbMATH Open1364.53061arXiv1310.0717OpenAlexW2963158347MaRDI QIDQ2807109FDOQ2807109

Authors: Ben Andrews, Mat Langford 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Scienze. Serie V (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It was recently proved that embedded solutions of Euclidean hypersurface flows with speeds given by concave (convex), degree one homogeneous functions of the Weingarten map are interior (exterior) non-collapsing. These results were subsequently extended to hypersurface flows in the sphere and hyperbolic space. In the first part of the paper, we show that locally convex solutions are exterior non-collapsing for a larger class of speed functions than previously considered; more precisely, we show that the previous results hold when convexity of the speed function is relaxed to inverse-concavity. We note that inverse-concavity is satisfied by a large class of concave speed functions. As a consequence, we obtain a large class of two-sided non-collapsing flows, whereas previously two-sided non-collapsing was only known for the mean curvature flow. In the second part of the paper, we demonstrate the utility of two sided non-collapsing with a straightforward proof of convergence of compact, convex hypersurfaces to round points. The proof of the non-collapsing estimate is similar to the previous results mentioned, in that we show that the exterior ball curvature is a viscosity supersolution of the linearised flow. The new ingredient is the following observation: Since the function which provides an upper support in the derivation of the viscosity inequality is defined on $MimesM$ (or $TM$ in the `boundary case'), whereas the exterior ball curvature and the linearised flow equation depend only on the first factor, we are privileged with a freedom of choice in which second derivatives from the extra directions to include in the calculation. The optimal choice is closely related to the class of inverse-concave speed functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0717

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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