Existence of mean curvature flow singularities with bounded mean curvature

DOI10.1215/00127094-2023-0005MaRDI QIDQ6046463zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maxwell Stolarski

Publication date 11 May 2023

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06383

zbMATH Keywords

finite-time singularitiesmean curvature flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Blow-up in context of PDEs (35B44) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: In [Vel94], Velazquez constructed a countable collection of mean curvature flow solutions in $mathbb{R}^N$ in every dimension $Nge8$. Each of these solutions becomes singular in finite time at which time the second fundamental form blows up. In contrast, we confirm here that, in every dimension $Nge8$, a nontrivial subset of these solutions has uniformly bounded mean curvature.

Review text

The mean curvature flow is one of the most important curvature flows, and has many interesting applications in deriving isoperimetric inequalities. For example, \textit{P. Topping} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 503, 47--61 (1998; Zbl 0909.53044)] used the mean curvature flow tool to get an isoperimetric inequality for closed \(2\)-discs (equipped with some metric \(g\)) if the boundary convexity (of these discs) and some Gaussian curvature constraint were imposed. A classical result by \textit{G. Huisken} [J. Differ. Geom. 20, 237--266 (1984; Zbl 0556.53001)] tells us that for a smooth family of closed, embedded hypersurfaces \(\{\Sigma^{N-1}(t)\}_{t\in[0,T)}\) (in the Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{N}\)) moving by the mean curvature flow, the second fundamental form \(A_{\Sigma(t)}\) blows up at the singularity time \(T<\infty\) in the sense that \[ \limsup_{t\nearrow T}\max_{x\in\Sigma(t)}|A_{\Sigma(t)}(x)|=\infty. \] \textit{W.-X. Shi} [J. Differ. Geom. 30, No. 1, 223--301 (1989; Zbl 0676.53044)] generalized Huisken's this result to noncompact hypersurfaces. One might naturally ask if the mean curvature \(H_{\Sigma(t)}\) necessarily blows up at a finite-time singularity, which is actually Problem 2.4.10 in [\textit{C. Mantegazza}, Lecture notes on mean curvature flow. Basel: Birkhäuser (2011; Zbl 1230.53002)]. The present author makes a remarkable and important progress on this open problem and obtains that for any dimension \(N\geq8\) there exists a smooth, properly embedded mean curvature flow of complete, noncompact hypersurfaces \(\{\Sigma^{N-1}(t)\subset\mathbb{R}^N\}_{t\in[0,T)}\) such that \[ \limsup_{t\nearrow T}\sup_{x\in\Sigma(t)}|A_{\Sigma(t)}(x)|=\infty, \quad \text{and} \quad \sup_{t\in[0,T)}\sup_{x\in\Sigma(t)}|H_{\Sigma(t)}(x)|<\infty. \] This means, roughly speaking, that for the mean curvature flow, in general, the mean curvature needs not blow up at a finite-time singularity.

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