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Global weak solutions for the inverse mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-24 v3

Abstract

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF) in the Heisenberg group (\Hen,dε)(\He^n, d_\varepsilon), where dεd_\varepsilon is distance associated to either ε| \cdot |_\varepsilon, ε>0\varepsilon>0, the natural family of left-invariant Riemannian metrics, or with their sub-Riemannian counterparts for ε=0\varepsilon=0. For Ω\Hen\Omega \subseteq \He^n an open set with smooth boundary Σ0=Ω\Sigma_0=\partial \Omega satisfying a uniform exterior gauge-ball condition and bounded complement we show existence of a global weak IMCF of generalized hypersurfaces {Σsε}s0Hn\{\Sigma^\varepsilon_s\}_{s \geq 0} \subseteq \mathbb{H}^n which are level sets of a proper globally Lipschitz function with logarithmic growth at infinity. Here, both in the Riemannian and in the sub-Riemannian setting, we adopt the weak formulation introduced by Huisken and Ilmanen in \cite{HuiskenIlmanen}, following the approach in \cite{Moser} due to Moser and based on the the link between IMCF and pp-harmonic functions.

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@article{arxiv.2406.15123,
  title  = {Global weak solutions for the inverse mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group},
  author = {Adriano Pisante and Eugenio Vecchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.15123},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

A new section on the relevant Bochner inequality has been added. A relevant error in the computation of the Ricci curvature has been fixed, together with the proofs of Theorem 1.2 and 1.4