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Functional analytic properties and regularity of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow in $\mathbb{R}^n$

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-03 v10 Functional Analysis

Abstract

In this article we continue the author's investigation of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow moving parametrizations of umbilic-free tori in Rn\mathbb{R}^n and in the nn-sphere Sn\mathbb{S}^n. In the main theorems of this article we prove basic properties of the evolution operator of the "DeTurck modification" of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow and of its Fr\'echet derivative by means of a combination of the author's results about this topic with the theory of "bounded H\mathcal{H}_{\infty}-calculus" for linear elliptic operators due to Amann, Denk, Duong, Hieber, Pr\"uss and Simonett, and with Amann's and Lunardi's work on semigroups and interpolation theory. Precisely, we prove local real analyticity of the evolution operator [FP(,0,F)][F\mapsto \mathcal{P}^*(\,\cdot\,,0,F)] of the "DeTurck modification" of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow in a small open ball in W44p,p(Σ,Rn)W^{4-\frac{4}{p},p}(\Sigma,\mathbb{R}^n), for any p(3,)p\in (3,\infty), about any fixed smooth parametrization F0:ΣRnF_0:\Sigma \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^n of a compact and umbilic-free torus in Rn\mathbb{R}^n. We prove moreover that the entire maximal flow line P(,0,F0)\mathcal{P}^*(\,\cdot\,,0,F_0), starting to move in a smooth and umbilic-free initial immersion F0F_0, is real analytic for positive times, and that therefore the Fr\'echet derivative DFP(,0,F0)D_{F}\mathcal{P}^*(\,\cdot\,,0,F_0) of the evolution operator in F0F_0 can be uniquely extended to a family of continuous linear operators GF0(t2,t1)G^{F_0}(t_2,t_1) in Lp(Σ,Rn)L^p(\Sigma,\mathbb{R}^n), whose ranges are dense in Lp(Σ,Rn)L^{p}(\Sigma,\mathbb{R}^n), for every fixed pair of times t2t1t_2\geq t_1 within the interval of maximal existence (0,Tmax(F0))(0,T_{max}(F_0)).

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@article{arxiv.2011.03832,
  title  = {Functional analytic properties and regularity of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow in $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Ruben Jakob},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03832},
  year   = {2026}
}