Finite time singularities for the locally constrained Willmore flow of surfaces

DOI10.4310/CAG.2016.V24.N4.A7zbMATH Open1365.53007arXiv1201.4541MaRDI QIDQ503447FDOQ503447

Authors: Glen Wheeler, James McCoy 

Publication date: 12 January 2017

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the steepest descent $L^2$-gradient flow of the functional $S{W}_{lambd{a}_1,lambd{a}_2}$, which is the the sum of the Willmore energy, $lambd{a}_1$-weighted surface area, and $lambd{a}_2$-weighted enclosed volume, for surfaces immersed in $R^3$. This coincides with the Helfrich functional with zero `spontaneous curvature'. Our first results are a concentration-compactness alternative and interior estimates for the flow. For initial data with small energy, we prove preservation of embeddedness, and by directly estimating the Euler-Lagrange operator from below in $L^2$ we obtain that the maximal time of existence is finite. Combining this result with the analysis of a suitable blowup allows us to show that for such initial data the flow contracts to a round point in finite time.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.4541

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zbMATH Keywords

parabolic partial differential equationsgeometric analysisfourth-order flowglobal differential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global submanifolds (53C40)

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