Mean curvature flows and isotopy of maps between spheres

DOI10.1002/CPA.20022zbMATH Open1067.53056arXivmath/0302242OpenAlexW2156534400MaRDI QIDQ4736744FDOQ4736744

Mao-Pei Tsui, M.-T. Wang

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let f be a smooth map between unit spheres of possibly different dimensions. We prove the global existence and convergence of the mean curvature flow of the graph of f under various conditions. A corollary is that any area-decreasing map between unit spheres (of possibly different dimensions) is homotopic to a constant map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302242

zbMATH Keywords

homotopy groups of spheresgraphic mean curvature flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

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• Gauss maps of the mean curvature flow
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