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Lagrangian Mean Curvature flow for entire Lipschitz graphs

Differential Geometry 2009-02-20 v1

Abstract

We consider the mean curvature flow of entire Lagrangian graphs with Lipschitz continuous initial data. Assuming only a certain bound on the Lipschitz norm of an initial entire Lagrangian graph in R2n\R^{2n}, we show that the parabolic equation \eqref{PMA} for the Lagrangian potential has a longtime solution which is smooth for all positive time and satisfies uniform estimates away from time t=0t=0. In particular, under the mean curvature flow the graph immediately becomes smooth and the solution exists for all time such that the second fundamental form decays uniformly to 0 on the graph as tt\to \infty. Our assumption on the Lipschitz norm is equivalent to the assumption that the underlying Lagrangian potential uu is uniformly convex with its Hessian bounded in LL^\infty. We apply this result to prove a Bernstein type theorem for translating solitons, namely that if such an entire Lagrangian graph is a smooth translating soliton, then it must be a flat plane. We also prove convergence of the evolving graphs under additional conditions.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3300,
  title  = {Lagrangian Mean Curvature flow for entire Lipschitz graphs},
  author = {Albert Chau and Jingyi Chen and Weiyong He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3300},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages

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