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Brakke's formulation of velocity and the second order regularity property

Analysis of PDEs 2024-12-02 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Suppose that a family of kk-dimensional surfaces in Rn\mathbb R^n evolves by the motion law of v=h+uv=h+u^\perp in the sense of Brakke's formulation of velocity, where vv is the normal velocity vector, hh is the generalized mean curvature vector and uu^\perp is the normal projection of a given vector field uu in a dimensionally sharp integrability class. When the flow is locally close to a time-independent kk-dimensional plane in a weak sense of measure in space-time, it is represented as a graph of a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} function over the plane. On the other hand, it is not known if the graph satisfies the PDE of v=h+uv=h+u^\perp pointwise in general. For this problem, when k=n1k=n-1 and under the additional assumption that the distributional time derivative of the graph is a signed Radon measure, it is proved that the graph satisfies the PDE pointwise. An application to a short-time existence theorem for a surface evolution problem is given.

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@article{arxiv.2109.06380,
  title  = {Brakke's formulation of velocity and the second order regularity property},
  author = {Ryunosuke Mori and Eita Tomimatsu and Yoshihiro Tonegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06380},
  year   = {2024}
}

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