Nonfattening condition for the generalized evolution by mean curvature and applications

DOI10.4171/IFB/177MaRDI QIDQ933103zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Samuel Biton, Pierre Cardaliaguet, Olivier Ley

Publication date 21 July 2008

Published in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4171/IFB/177

zbMATH Keywords

level set approachmean curvature flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07)

Review text

This paper studies the problem of uniqueness for a class of geometric evolution equations of hypersurfaces in Euclidean space, that includes motion by mean curvature. The idea is as follows: using the level-set approach one can define the notion of visosity solution for a class of PDE's that include mean curvature flow (\textit{Y.-G. Chen, Y. Giga} and \textit{S. Goto} [J. Differ. Geom. 33, No.~3, 749--786 (1991; Zbl 0696.35087)] and \textit{L.C. Evans} and \textit{J. Spruck} [J. Differ. Geom. 33, No.~3, 635--681 (1991; Zbl 0726.53029)]). In this way given an initial hypersurface \(\Gamma_0\) in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) one obtains existence of a global viscosity solution \(\Gamma_t\), \(t\geq 0\) of the mean curvature flow starting from \(\Gamma_0\). In general, this solution is not unique, and the main result of the paper gives uniqueness under a certain technical assumption. As a corollary they prove the following result. Recall that a function \(u_0:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}\) is called convex at infinity if there is a ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) so that for any convex set \(C\) in the complement of the ball, the restriction \(u_0| _C\) is convex. Then they prove that for any continuous such \(u_0\) (without any growth assumption at infinity) there exists a unique global solution of the mean curvature equation for graphs, starting at the graph of \(u_0\). The existence of such a solution follows from \textit{K. Ecker} and \textit{G. Huisken} [Invent. Math. 105, No.~3, 547--569 (1991; Zbl 0707.53008)].

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