Mean curvature flow of spacelike graphs

DOI10.1007/S00209-010-0768-4MaRDI QIDQ658343zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 12 January 2012

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.0783

maximum principle mean curvature flow space-like submanifold homotopic maps

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Global submanifolds (53C40) Equations in function spaces; evolution equations (58D25)

Abstract: We prove the mean curvature flow of a spacelike graph in

(S i g m a_{1} i m e s S i g m a_{2}, g_{1} - g_{2})

of a map

f : S i g m a_{1} o S i g m a_{2}

from a closed Riemannian manifold

(S i g m a_{1}, g_{1})

with

R i c c i_{1} > 0

to a complete Riemannian manifold

(S i g m a_{2}, g_{2})

with bounded curvature tensor and derivatives, and with sectional curvatures satisfying

K_{2} l e q K_{1}

, remains a spacelike graph, exists for all time, and converges to a slice at infinity. We also show, with no need of the assumption

K_{2} l e q K_{1}

, that if

K_{1} > 0

, or if

R i c c i_{1} > 0

and

K_{2} l e q - c

,

c > 0

constant, any map

f : S i g m a_{1} o S i g m a_{2}

is trivially homotopic provided

f^{*} g_{2} < h o g_{1}

where

h o = m i n_{S i g m a_{1}} K_{1} / s u p_{S i g m a_{2}} K_{2}^{+} g e q 0

, in case

K_{1} > 0

, and

h o = + i n f t y

in case

K_{2} l e q 0

. This largely extends some known results for

K_{i}

constant and

S i g m a_{2}

compact, obtained using the Riemannian structure of

S i g m a_{1} i m e s S i g m a_{2}

, and also shows how regularity theory on the mean curvature flow is simpler and more natural in pseudo-Riemannian setting then in the Riemannian one.

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