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Mean Curvature Flow Of Reifenberg Sets

Differential Geometry 2017-02-15 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we prove short time existence and uniqueness of smooth evolution by mean curvature in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} starting from any nn-dimensional (ε,R)(\varepsilon,R)-Reifenberg flat set with ε\varepsilon sufficiently small. More precisely, we show that the level set flow in such a situation is non-fattening and smooth. These sets have a weak metric notion of tangent planes at every small scale, but the tangents are allowed to tilt as the scales vary. As this class is wide enough to include some fractal sets, this provides the first example (when n>1n>1) of unique smoothing by mean curvature flow of sets with Hausdorff dimension >n> n.

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@article{arxiv.1412.4799,
  title  = {Mean Curvature Flow Of Reifenberg Sets},
  author = {Or Hershkovits},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4799},
  year   = {2017}
}