Concentration-compactness and finite-time singularities for Chen's flow

zbMATH Open1425.53079arXiv1706.01707MaRDI QIDQ5228028FDOQ5228028

Authors: Yann Bernard, Glen Wheeler, Valentina-Mira Wheeler 

Publication date: 8 August 2019

Abstract: Chen's flow is a fourth-order curvature flow motivated by the spectral decomposition of immersions, a program classically pushed by B.-Y. Chen since the 1970s. In curvature flow terms the flow sits at the critical level of scaling together with the most popular extrinsic fourth-order curvature flow, the Willmore and surface diffusion flows. Unlike them however the famous Chen conjecture indicates that there should be no stationary nonminimal data, and so in particular the flow should drive all closed submanifolds to singularities. We investigate this idea, proving that (1) closed data becomes extinct in finite time in all dimensions and for any codimension; (2) singularities are characterised by concentration of curvature in $L^n$ for intrinsic dimension $nin2,4$ and any codimension (a Lifespan Theorem); and (3) for $n=2$ and in one codimension only, there exists an explicit small constant $varepsilo{n}_2$ such that if the $L^2$ norm of the tracefree curvature is initially smaller than $varepsilo{n}_2$, the flow remains smooth until it shrinks to a point, and that the blowup of that point is an embedded smooth round sphere.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01707

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zbMATH Keywords

fourth ordergeometric analysisbiharmoniccurvature flowglobal differential geometryChen conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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