On the classification of ancient solutions to curvature flows on the sphere

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.202105_006MaRDI QIDQ6131747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Paul Bryan, Mohammad N. Ivaki, Julian Scheuer

Publication date 18 April 2024

Published in ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01694

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by smooth functions of the Weingarten map. We introduce the notion of `quasi-ancient' solutions for flows that do not admit non-trivial, convex, ancient solutions. Such solutions are somewhat analogous to ancient solutions for flows such as the mean curvature flow, or 1-homogeneous flows. The techniques presented here allow us to prove that any convex, quasi-ancient solution of a curvature flow which satisfies a backwards in time uniform bound on mean curvature must be stationary or a family of shrinking geodesic spheres. The main tools are geometric, employing the maximum principle, a rigidity result in the sphere and an Alexandrov reflection argument. We emphasize that no homogeneity or convexity/concavity restrictions are placed on the speed, though we do also offer a short classification proof for several such restricted cases.

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