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On the extension of the mean curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2012-01-25 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Consider a family of smooth immersions F(,t):MnRn+1F(\cdot,t): M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1} of closed hypersurfaces in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} moving by the mean curvature flow F(p,t)t=H(p,t)ν(p,t)\frac{\partial F(p,t)}{\partial t} = -H(p,t)\cdot \nu(p,t), for t[0,T)t\in [0,T). In \cite{Cooper} Cooper has recently proved that the mean curvature blows up at the singular time TT. We show that if the second fundamental form stays bounded from below all the way to TT, then the scaling invariant mean curvature integral bound is enough to extend the flow past time TT, and this integral bound is optimal in some sense explained below.

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@article{arxiv.0905.0936,
  title  = {On the extension of the mean curvature flow},
  author = {Nam Q. Le and Natasa Sesum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0936},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

21 pages, presented self-contained proof of the main theorem