Inverse Mean Curvature Flow of Rotationally Symmetric Hypersurfaces

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02469-8MaRDI QIDQ6347252arXivFDO

Authors Brian Harvie

Publication date 17 August 2020

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00526-023-02469-8

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximum principles in context of PDEs (35B50) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

arXiv classification

math.APmath.DG

Abstract: We prove that the Inverse Mean Curvature Flow of a non-star-shaped, mean-convex embedded sphere in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with symmetry about an axis and sufficiently long, thick necks exists for all time and homothetically converges to a round sphere as $tightarrowinfty$. Our approach is based on a localized version of the parabolic maximum principle. We also present two applications of this result. The first is an extension of the Minkowski inequality to the corresponding non-star-shaped, mean-convex domains in $mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. The second is a connection between IMCF and minimal surface theory. Based on previous work by Meeks and Yau and using foliations by IMCF, we establish embeddedness of the solution to Plateau's problem and a finiteness property of stable immersed minimal disks for certain Jordan curves in $mathbb{R}^3$.

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