Hopf type theorems for self-similar solutions of curvature flows in \mathbb{R}^3

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Authors Hilário Alencar, Gregório Silva Neto, Detang Zhou

Publication date 22 September 2020

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Second-order parabolic equations (35K10) Initial value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K15) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

Abstract: In this paper we prove rigidity results for two-dimensional, closed, immersed, non-necessarily convex, self-similar solutions of a wide class of fully non-linear parabolic flows in $mathbb{R}^3$. We show this self-similar solutions are the round spheres centered at the origin provided it has genus zero and satisfies a suitable upper pinching estimate for the Gaussian curvature. As applications, we obtain rigidity results for the round sphere as the only closed, immersed, genus zero, self-similar solution of several well known flows, as the flow of the powers of mean curvature, the harmonic mean curvature flow and the $alpha$-Gaussian curvature flow for $alphain(0,1/4)$. We remark that our result does not assume any embeddedness condition.

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