Remarks on affine evolutions

DOI10.1007/BF02940814MaRDI QIDQ1352270zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 4 January 1998

Published in Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940814

affine evolution of an ovaloid strictly convex hypersurface

Initial value problems for linear higher-order PDEs (35G10) Higher-order parabolic equations (35K25) Affine differential geometry (53A15) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

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This paper deals with the effect of the affine evolution \(x_t\) \((t\geq 0)\) of an ovaloid \(x(S_{d-1})=F\) in the \(d\)-dimensional space \(R_d\) as solution of the evolution equation \({\partial x_t\over\partial t}= y_t\) (\(y_t=\) affine normal vector of \(x_t\)) under the initial condition \(x_0=x\). The author refers to [\textit{B. Andrews}, J. Differ. Geom. 43, 207-230 (1996; Zbl 0858.53005)] stating that his aim is to add some considerations which had been made independently by him without previous knowledge of that paper. A different motivation for the affine evolution equation is mentioned, which comes from the notion of equiaffine inner parallel hypersurfaces as boundaries of floating bodies. The author states that this notion was proposed by G. Chakerian, as a means of considering the affine isoperimetric inequality. Formulas for the affine evolution of the three fundamental forms and some other basic affine invariants of the given hypersurface \(F\) are developed. An inequality concerning the affine isoperimetric quotient is proven, and this leads to the main result of the article, which states that the limit body must be an ellipsoid.

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