A Mean Curvature Flow Propagating in a Cylinder at Exponential Speed

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Authors: Bendong Lou, Xiaoliu Wang, Li-Xia Yuan 

Publication date: 2 February 2023

Abstract: In this paper, we study the long time behaviour of mean curvature flow in a cylinder with Robin boundary conditions. Such a boundary condition can force the solution to have a singular behaviour at the boundary when $toinfty$. The planar version of this problem has been investigated in an existing literature, where the curve shortening flow in $2$-dimensional band with Robin boundary conditions is shown to converge to a translating Grim Reaper with finite speed and fixed profile. By considering a radially symmetric mean curvature flow, denoted by $u(|x|,t)$, in $(N+1)$-dimensional cylinder ($Ngeq2$), we find in the present paper a new feature of the flow: both the interior gradients and the propagating speed of the flow increase to infinity exponentially, $Du/usimx$ and $usim{C}_0{e}^{(N-1)t}{e}^{frac|x{|}^{2}2}$ as $toinfty$ for some $C_0>0$, which is completely different from the 2-dimensional case.

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