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Geometric flows with rough initial data

Differential Geometry 2011-04-04 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution for the mean curvature flow, the surface diffusion flow and the Willmore flow of entire graphs for Lipschitz initial data with small Lipschitz norm. We also show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution to the Ricci-DeTurck flow on euclidean space for bounded initial metrics which are close to the euclidean metric in LL^\infty and to the harmonic map flow for initial maps whose image is contained in a small geodesic ball.

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@article{arxiv.0902.1488,
  title  = {Geometric flows with rough initial data},
  author = {Herbert Koch and Tobias Lamm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.1488},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Minor corrections, added a result for the surface diffusion flow

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