Level set method for motion by mean curvature

DOI10.1090/NOTI1439zbMATH Open1355.53057arXiv1607.02069OpenAlexW2963929886MaRDI QIDQ2952059FDOQ2952059

William P. II Minicozzi, Tobias Holck Colding

Publication date: 29 December 2016

Published in: Notices of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Modeling of a wide class of physical phenomena, such as crystal growth and flame propagation, leads to tracking fronts moving with curvature-dependent speed. When the speed is the curvature this leads to one of the classical degenerate nonlinear second order differential equations on Euclidean space. One naturally wonders "what is the regularity of solutions?" A priori solutions are only defined in a weak sense, but it turns out that they are always twice differentiable classical solutions. This result is optimal; their second derivative is continuous only in very rigid situations that have a simple geometric interpretation. The proof weaves together analysis and geometry. Without deeply understanding the underlying geometry, it is impossible to prove fine analytical properties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02069

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zbMATH Keywords

dumbbellmean curvature flowcurve shortening flowlevel set flowflame propagationgrowth of a crystalevolving frontmean convex flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Geometry education (97G99)

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