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A new version of Brakke's local regularity theorem

Analysis of PDEs 2016-09-16 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Consider an integral Brakke flow (μt)(\mu_t), t[0,T]t\in [0,T], inside some ball in Euclidean space. If μ0\mu_{0} has small height, its measure does not deviate too much from that of a plane and if μT\mu_{T} is non-empty, then Brakke's local regularity theorem yields that (μt)(\mu_t) is actually smooth and graphical inside a smaller ball for times t(C,TC)t\in (C,T-C) for some constant CC. Here we extend this result to times t(C,T)t\in (C,T). The main idea is to prove that a Brakke flow that is initially locally graphical with small gradient will remain graphical for some time. Moreover we use the new local regularity theorem to generalise White's regularity theorem to Brakke flows.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1601.06710,
  title  = {A new version of Brakke's local regularity theorem},
  author = {Ananda Lahiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06710},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

40 pages, corrected an error in the former Lemma 4.4 (now Lemma 5.4), added a section about curvature estimates (used for the mentioned correction)

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