scholarly journals A numerical stability analysis of mean curvature flow of noncompact hypersurfaces with type-II curvature blowup

Nonlinearity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 6539-6560
Author(s):  
David Garfinkle ◽  
James Isenberg ◽  
Dan Knopf ◽  
Haotian Wu
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (754) ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Isenberg ◽  
Haotian Wu

Abstract We study the phenomenon of Type-II curvature blow-up in mean curvature flows of rotationally symmetric noncompact embedded hypersurfaces. Using analytic techniques based on formal matched asymptotics and the construction of upper and lower barrier solutions enveloping formal solutions with prescribed behavior, we show that for each initial hypersurface considered, a mean curvature flow solution exhibits the following behavior near the “vanishing” time T: (1) The highest curvature concentrates at the tip of the hypersurface (an umbilic point), and for each choice of the parameter {\gamma>\frac{1}{2}} , there is a solution with the highest curvature blowing up at the rate {(T-t)^{{-(\gamma+\frac{1}{2})}}} . (2) In a neighborhood of the tip, the solution converges to a translating soliton which is a higher-dimensional analogue of the “Grim Reaper” solution for the curve-shortening flow. (3) Away from the tip, the flow surface approaches a collapsing cylinder at a characteristic rate dependent on the parameter γ.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora Bourni ◽  
Mat Langford

AbstractWe show that any strictly mean convex translator of dimension n ≥ 3 which admits a cylindrical estimate and a corresponding gradient estimate is rotationally symmetric. As a consequence, we deduce that any translating solution of the mean curvature flow which arises as a blow-up limit of a two-convex mean curvature flow of compact immersed hypersurfaces of dimension n ≥ 3 is rotationally symmetric. The proof is rather robust, and applies to a more general class of translator equations. As a particular application, we prove an analogous result for a class of flows of embedded hypersurfaces which includes the flow of twoconvex hypersurfaces by the two-harmonic mean curvature.


2020 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 107111
Author(s):  
James Isenberg ◽  
Haotian Wu ◽  
Zhou Zhang

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ssekajja

We classify two main singularities, as type I and type II, associated with null mean curvature flow of screen conformal null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds. We prove that the flow at a type I singularity is asymptotically self-similar, whereas at a type II singularity there is a blow-up solution which is an eternal solution. For further analysis of the above two singularities, we define null translating solitons and use them to prove some Harnack estimates for null mean curvature flow under certain geometric conditions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1518-1530
Author(s):  
Xuesen Qi ◽  
Ximin Liu

Abstract In this paper, we discuss the monotonicity of the first nonzero eigenvalue of the Laplace operator and the p-Laplace operator under a forced mean curvature flow (MCF). By imposing conditions associated with the mean curvature of the initial hypersurface and the coefficient function of the forcing term of a forced MCF, and some special pinching conditions on the second fundamental form of the initial hypersurface, we prove that the first nonzero closed eigenvalues of the Laplace operator and the p-Laplace operator are monotonic under the forced MCF, respectively, which partially generalize Mao and Zhao’s work. Moreover, we give an example to specify applications of conclusions obtained above.


2017 ◽  
Vol 369 (12) ◽  
pp. 8319-8342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Wheeler ◽  
Valentina-Mira Wheeler

Author(s):  
Peng Lu ◽  
Jiuru Zhou

AbstractWe construct the ancient solutions of the hypersurface flows in Euclidean spaces studied by B. Andrews in 1994.As time {t\rightarrow 0^{-}} the solutions collapse to a round point where 0 is the singular time. But as {t\rightarrow-\infty} the solutions become more and more oval. Near the center the appropriately-rescaled pointed Cheeger–Gromov limits are round cylinder solutions {S^{J}\times\mathbb{R}^{n-J}}, {1\leq J\leq n-1}. These results are the analog of the corresponding results in Ricci flow ({J=n-1}) and mean curvature flow.


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