The gradient flow of the L^2 curvature energy on surfaces

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNQ286MaRDI QIDQ3108488zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeffrey Streets

Publication date 4 January 2012

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4311

zbMATH Keywords

critical metricsgradient flowlong-time existencesurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Manifolds of metrics (especially Riemannian) (58D17) Critical metrics (58E11)

Abstract: We investigate the gradient flow of the $L^2$ norm of the Riemannian curvature on surfaces. We show long time existence with arbitrary initial data, and exponential convergence of the volume normalized flow to a constant scalar curvature metric when the initial energy is below a constant determined by the Euler characteristic of the underlying surface.

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