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Inverse mean curvature flows in warped product manifolds

Differential Geometry 2017-08-08 v5

Abstract

We study inverse mean curvature flows of starshaped, mean convex hypersurfaces in warped product manifolds with a positive warping factor φ(r)\varphi(r). If φ(r)>0\varphi'(r)>0 and φ(r)0\varphi''(r)\geq 0, we show that these flows exist for all times, remain starshaped and mean convex. Plus the positivity of φ(r)\varphi''(r) and a curvature condition we obtain a lower positive bound of mean curvature along these flows independent of the initial mean curvature. We also give a sufficient condition to extend the asymptotic behavior of these flows in Euclidean spaces into some more general warped product manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1609.09665,
  title  = {Inverse mean curvature flows in warped product manifolds},
  author = {Hengyu Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09665},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Version 4: Final Version. Update some remarks for the conditions(see Remark 5.4). To appear the Journal of Geometric Analysis. Version 5: correct a reference typo and add two new references, mention an unpublished work in this direction