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Asymptotic Convergence for a Class of Fully Nonlinear Contracting Curvature Flows

Differential Geometry 2021-04-14 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study a class of fully nonlinear contracting curvature flows of closed, uniformly convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space Rn+1\mathbb R^{n+1} with the normal speed Φ\Phi given by rαFβr^\alpha F^\beta or uαFβu^\alpha F^\beta, where FF is a monotone, symmetric, inverse-concave, homogeneous of degree one function of the principal curvatures, rr is the distance from the hypersurface to the origin and uu is the support function of hypersurface. If αβ+1\alpha\geq \beta+1 when Φ=rαFβ\Phi=r^\alpha F^\beta or α>β+1\alpha> \beta+1 when Φ=uαFβ\Phi=u^\alpha F^\beta, we prove that the flow exists for all times and converges to the origin. After proper rescaling, we prove that the normalized flow converges exponentially in the CC^\infty topology to a sphere centered at the origin. Furthermore, for special inverse concave curvature function F=KsnF11s(s(0,1])F=K^{\frac{s}{n}}F_1^{1-s}(s\in(0, 1]), where KK is Gauss curvature and F1F_1 is inverse-concave, we obtain the asymptotic convergence for the flow with Φ=uαFβ\Phi=u^\alpha F^\beta when α=β+1\alpha=\beta+1. If α<β+1\alpha<\beta+1, a counterexample is given for the above convergence when speed equals to rαFβr^\alpha F^\beta.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05966,
  title  = {Asymptotic Convergence for a Class of Fully Nonlinear Contracting Curvature Flows},
  author = {Yusha Lv and Hejun Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05966},
  year   = {2021}
}