Classification of convex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow on the sphere

DOI10.1007/S12220-015-9574-XMaRDI QIDQ282789zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul Bryan, Janelle Louie

Publication date 12 May 2016

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5523, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gt6c9nw

zbMATH Keywords

ancient solutionsHarnack inequalityAleksandrov reflectioncurve shortening flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We prove that the only closed, embedded ancient solutions to the curve shortening flow on $mathbb{S}^2$ are equators or shrinking circles, starting at an equator at time $t=-infty$ and collapsing to the north pole at time $t=0$. To obtain the result, we first prove a Harnack inequality for the curve shortening flow on the sphere. Then an application of the Gauss-Bonnet, easily allows us to obtain curvature bounds for ancient solutions leading to backwards smooth convergence to an equator. To complete the proof, we use an Aleksandrov reflection argument to show that maximal symmetry is preserved under the flow.

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