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Mean curvature flow of higher codimension in Riemannian manifolds

Differential Geometry 2012-04-03 v1

Abstract

We investigate the convergence of the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then along the mean curvature flow the submanifold contracts smoothly to a round point in finite time. As a consequence we obtain a differentiable sphere theorem for submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold.

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@article{arxiv.1204.0107,
  title  = {Mean curvature flow of higher codimension in Riemannian manifolds},
  author = {Kefeng Liu and Hongwei Xu and Entao Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0107},
  year   = {2012}
}

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28 pages