Lagrangian Mean Curvature flow for entire Lipschitz graphs
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 , 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 . 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 . Our assumption on the Lipschitz norm is equivalent to the assumption that the underlying Lagrangian potential is uniformly convex with its Hessian bounded in . 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