Subsets of Grassmannians preserved by mean curvature flows

DOI10.4310/CAG.2005.V13.N5.A7zbMATH Open1111.53052arXivmath/0209201MaRDI QIDQ871727FDOQ871727

M.-T. Wang

Publication date: 20 March 2007

Published in: Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $M=Sigm{a}_{1}imesSigm{a}_2$ be the product of two compact Riemannian manifolds of dimension $ngeq2$ and two, respectively. Let $Sigma$ be the graph of a smooth map $f:Sigm{a}_{1}mapstoSigm{a}_2$, then $Sigma$ is an $n$-dimensional submanifold of $M$. Let $frakG$ be the Grassmannian bundle over $M$ whose fiber at each point is the set of all $n$-dimensional subspaces of the tangent space of $M$. The Gauss map $gamma:SigmamapstofrakG$ assigns to each point $xinSigma$ the tangent space of $Sigma$ at $x$. This article considers the mean curvature flow of $Sigma$ in $M$. When $Sigm{a}_1$ and $Sigm{a}_2$ are of the same non-negative curvature, we show a sub-bundle $frakS$ of the Grassmannian bundle is preserved along the flow, i.e. if the Gauss map of the initial submanifold $Sigma$ lies in $frakS$, then the Gauss map of $Sigm{a}_t$ at any later time $t$ remains in $frakS$. We also show that under this initial condition, the mean curvature flow remains a graph, exists for all time and converges to the graph of a constant map at infinity . As an application, we show that if $f$ is any map from $S^n$ to $S^2$ and if at each point, the restriction of $df$ to any two dimensional subspace is area decreasing, then $f$ is homotopic to a constant map.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0209201

zbMATH Keywords

graphGauss mapsmooth map

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