On the extension of the mean curvature flow
Differential Geometry
2012-01-25 v2 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
Consider a family of smooth immersions of closed hypersurfaces in moving by the mean curvature flow , for . In \cite{Cooper} Cooper has recently proved that the mean curvature blows up at the singular time . We show that if the second fundamental form stays bounded from below all the way to , then the scaling invariant mean curvature integral bound is enough to extend the flow past time , and this integral bound is optimal in some sense explained below.
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Cite
@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