Regularity of mean curvature flows with Neumann free boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S00526-011-0411-1MaRDI QIDQ662840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Amos N. Koeller

Publication date 13 February 2012

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0601

zbMATH Keywords

Hausdorff measuremean curvature flowNeumann free boundary conditionsingular set

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Abstract: We consider $n$-dimensional hypersurfaces flowing by mean curvature flow with Neumann free boundary conditions supported on a smooth support surface. We show that the Hausdorff $n$-measure of the singular set is zero. In fact, we consider two types of interaction between the support and flowing surfaces. In the case of weaker interaction, we need make no further assumptions than in the case without boundary to achieve our result. In the case of stronger interaction, we need only make the additional assumption that $H_{Sigma}>0$, that is, that the support surface be mean convex. We go on, in this case, to show that the result is not, in general, true without the mean convexity assumption.

Review text

This article presents a (rather epic) proof for the fact that the singular set of a family of surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow with Neumann free boundary condition has Hausdorff measure zero. A surface is said to evolve by mean curvature flow, if at every time the velocity vector of a surface point is orthogonal to the surface and of length equal to the mean curvature. A Neumann free boundary condition provides a fixed surface along which the flowing surface can evolve freely, as long as boundary and flow meet orthogonally. At singular points, the flow becomes undefined or stops. The conditions (area continuity hypothesis, unit density hypothesis) under which this main result is proved analogous to those of the case without boundary, see [\textit{K.~Ecker}, Regularity Theory for Mean Curvature Flow. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and their Applications 57. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser. (2004; Zbl 1058.53054)]. By already established techniques, it is deduced that only singularities at the boundary can have a positive Hausdorff measure. But a long chain of deep arguments shows that they cannot be reached by the flow. Hence, the mentioned result follows.

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