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On weak inverse mean curvature flow and Minkowski-type inequalities in hyperbolic space

Differential Geometry 2024-07-30 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove that a proper weak solution {Ωt}0t<\{ \Omega_{t} \}_{0 \leq t < \infty} to inverse mean curvature flow in Hn\mathbb{H}^{n}, 3n73\leq n \leq 7, is smooth and star-shaped by the time \begin{equation*} T= (n-1) \log \left( \frac{\text{sinh} \left( r_{+} \right)}{ \text{sinh} \left( r_{-} \right)} \right), \end{equation*} where r+r_{+} and rr_{-} are the geodesic out-radius and in-radius of the initial domain Ω0\Omega_{0}. The argument is inspired by the Alexandrov reflection method for extrinsic curvature flows in Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} due to Chow-Gulliver and uses a result of Li-Wei. In addition to this, our methods establish expanding spheres as the only proper weak IMCF on Hn{0}\mathbb{H}^{n} \setminus \{ 0 \} in all dimensions. As applications, we extend the Minkowski inequalities of Brendle-Hung-Wang and De Lima-Girao to outer-minimizing domains Ω0Hn\Omega_{0} \subset \mathbb{H}^{n} in dimensions 3n73 \leq n \leq 7. From this, we also extend a Penrose-type inequality to balanced asymptotically hyperbolic graphs over the exteriors of outer-minimizing domains of Hn\mathbb{H}^{n} in these dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.2404.08410,
  title  = {On weak inverse mean curvature flow and Minkowski-type inequalities in hyperbolic space},
  author = {Brian Harvie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08410},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

The lower bound on the support function from the original version was erroneous. The calculation in Section 3 and the resulting estimate have been corrected. Also added a result on proper weak IMCF in punctured hyperbolic space