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Mean convex mean curvature flow with free boundary

Differential Geometry 2025-06-30 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we generalize White's regularity and structure theory for mean-convex mean curvature flow to the setting with free boundary. A major new challenge in the free boundary setting is to derive an a priori bound for the ratio between the norm of the second fundamental form and the mean curvature. We establish such a bound via the maximum principle for a triple-approximation scheme, which combines ideas from Edelen, Haslhofer-Hershkovits, and Volkmann. Other important new ingredients are a Bernstein-type theorem and a sheeting theorem for low entropy free boundary flows in a halfslab, which allow us to rule out multiplicity 2 (half-)planes as possible tangent flows and, for mean convex domains, as possible limit flows.

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@article{arxiv.1911.01186,
  title  = {Mean convex mean curvature flow with free boundary},
  author = {Nick Edelen and Robert Haslhofer and Mohammad N. Ivaki and Jonathan J. Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.01186},
  year   = {2025}
}

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52 pages