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Convex solutions to the power-of-mean curvature flow

Analysis of PDEs 2012-10-31 v2

Abstract

We prove some estimates for convex ancient solutions (the existence time for the solution starts from -\infty) to the power-of-mean curvature flow, when the power is strictly greater than 1/2. As an application, we prove that in two dimension, the blow-down of the entire convex translating solution, namely uh=1hu(h11+αx),u_{h}=\frac{1}{h}u(h^{\frac{1}{1+\alpha}}x), locally uniformly converges to 11+αx1+α\frac{1}{1+\alpha}|x|^{1+\alpha} as hh\rightarrow\infty. Another application is that for generalized curve shortening flow (convex curve evolving in its normal direction with speed equal to a power of its curvature), if the convex compact ancient solution sweeps R2\textbf{R}^{2}, it it has to be a shrinking circle. Otherwise the solution is defined in a strip region.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7363,
  title  = {Convex solutions to the power-of-mean curvature flow},
  author = {Shibing Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7363},
  year   = {2012}
}

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