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The harmonic mean curvature flow of nonconvex surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$

Differential Geometry 2008-09-03 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface Σ2R3\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well (see \cite{An1}). We also prove that in the case we have a surface of revolution which is star-shaped and mean convex, a smooth solution always exists up to some finite time T<T < \infty at which the flow shrinks to a point asymptotically spherically.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1758,
  title  = {The harmonic mean curvature flow of nonconvex surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$},
  author = {Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Natasa Sesum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1758},
  year   = {2008}
}