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Power Mean Curvature Flow in Lorentzian Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study the motion of an nn-dimensional closed spacelike hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold in the direction of its past directed normal vector, where the speed equals a positive power pp of the mean curvature. We prove that for any p(0,1]p\in (0,1], the flow exists for all time when the Ricci tensor of the ambient space is bounded from below on the set of timelike unit vectors. Moreover, if we assume that all envolving hypersurfaces stay in a precompact region, then the flow converges to a stationary maximum spacelike hypersurface.

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@article{arxiv.math/0602268,
  title  = {Power Mean Curvature Flow in Lorentzian Manifolds},
  author = {Guanghan Li and Isabel M. C. Salavessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602268},
  year   = {2007}
}

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