Uniqueness of viscosity mean curvature flow solution in two sub-Riemannian structures

DOI10.1137/17M1150797MaRDI QIDQ5231321zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Emre Baspinar, Giovanna Citti

Publication date 26 August 2019

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06031

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupmean curvature flowsub-Riemannian geometryuniquenessviscosityvisual cortex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: Here we provide a uniqueness result for viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow. In this setting the uniqueness cannot be deduced via comparison principle, which is known only for graphs and for radially symmetric surfaces, due to the presence of characteristic points. Here we prove that any viscosity solution is limit of a sequence of solutions of Riemannian flow, and obtain as a consequence uniqueness and comparison principle already known in the approximating riemannian setting. The results are provided in the settings of both 3-dimensional rototranslation group SE(2) and Carnot groups of step 2, which are particularly important due to their relation to surface completion problem of model of the visual cortex.

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