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Flow by powers of the Gauss curvature in space forms

Differential Geometry 2021-11-04 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that convex hypersurfaces under the flow by powers α>0\alpha>0 of the Gauss curvature in space forms Nn+1(κ)\mathbb{N}^{n+1}(\kappa) of constant sectional curvature κ\kappa (κ=±1)(\kappa=\pm 1) contract to a point in finite time TT^*. Moreover, convex hypersurfaces under the flow by power α>1n+2\alpha>\frac{1}{n+2} of the Gauss curvature converge (after rescaling) to a limit which is the geodesic sphere in Nn+1(κ)\mathbb{N}^{n+1}(\kappa). This extends the known results in Euclidean space to space forms.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01951,
  title  = {Flow by powers of the Gauss curvature in space forms},
  author = {Min Chen and Jiuzhou Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01951},
  year   = {2021}
}