scholarly journals Type-II singularities of two-convex immersed mean curvature flow

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora Bourni ◽  
Mat Langford
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
General Class ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Analogous Result ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Rotationally Symmetric ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mean Convex

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.

scholarly journals Simply connected translating solitons contained in slabs

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-120
Author(s):  
Francesco Chini
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Grim Reaper ◽  
Rotationally Symmetric ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Simply Connected ◽  
Mean Convex ◽  
Translating Solitons

AbstractIn this work we show that 2-dimensional, simply connected, translating solitons of the mean curvature flow embedded in a slab of ℝ3 with entropy strictly less than 3 must be mean convex and thus, thanks to a result by Spruck and Xiao are convex. Recently, such 2-dimensional convex translating solitons have been completely classified, up to an ambient isometry, as vertical planes, (tilted) grim reaper cylinders, Δ-wings and bowl translater. These are all contained in a slab, except for the rotationally symmetric bowl translater. New examples by Ho man, Martín and White show that the bound on the entropy is necessary.

scholarly journals Mean curvature flow of noncompact hypersurfaces with Type-II curvature blow-up

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (754) ◽  
pp. 225-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Isenberg ◽  
Haotian Wu
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Matched Asymptotics ◽  
Curve Shortening Flow ◽  
Initial Hypersurface ◽  
Rate Dependent ◽  
Blowing Up

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.

scholarly journals Mean curvature flow of noncompact hypersurfaces with Type-II curvature blow-up. II

2020 ◽  
Vol 367 ◽  
pp. 107111
Author(s):  
James Isenberg ◽  
Haotian Wu ◽  
Zhou Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Type Ii

scholarly journals Self-Expanders of the Mean Curvature Flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Smoczyk
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Curvature ◽  
Fundamental Form ◽  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Curvature Vector ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Second Fundamental Form ◽  
The Second Fundamental Form ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mean Convex

AbstractWe study self-expanding solutions $M^{m}\subset \mathbb {R}^{n}$ M m ⊂ ℝ n of the mean curvature flow. One of our main results is, that complete mean convex self-expanding hypersurfaces are products of self-expanding curves and flat subspaces, if and only if the function |A|2/|H|2 attains a local maximum, where A denotes the second fundamental form and H the mean curvature vector of M. If the principal normal ξ = H/|H| is parallel in the normal bundle, then a similar result holds in higher codimension for the function |Aξ|2/|H|2, where Aξ is the second fundamental form with respect to ξ. As a corollary we obtain that complete mean convex self-expanders attain strictly positive scalar curvature, if they are smoothly asymptotic to cones of non-negative scalar curvature. In particular, in dimension 2 any mean convex self-expander that is asymptotic to a cone must be strictly convex.

scholarly journals Singularities of null mean curvature flow of null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ssekajja
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Type I ◽  
Type Ii ◽  
Lorentzian Manifolds ◽  
Null Hypersurfaces ◽  
Geometric Conditions ◽  
Harnack Estimates

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.

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