A convergence result for the gradient flow of |A|^2 in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1515/GEOFL-2015-0001MaRDI QIDQ326949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Annibale Magni

Publication date 13 October 2016

Published in Geometric Flows (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2653

zbMATH Keywords

geometric measure theoryhigher-order geometric flowsWillmore functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for higher-order parabolic systems (35K46) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

Abstract: We study the gradient flow of the $L^2-$norm of the second fundamental form of smooth immersions of two-dimensional surfaces into compact Riemannian manifolds. By analogy with the results obtained for the Willmore flow in Riemannian manifolds, we prove lifespan estimates in terms of the $L^2-$concentration of the second fundamental form of the initial data and we show existence of blowup limits. Under special condition both on the initial data and on the target manifold, we prove a long time existence result for the flow and subconvergence to a critical immersion.

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