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Translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of Gauss curvature

Differential Geometry 2024-07-22 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We classify the surfaces translating under the flows by sub-affine-critical powers of the Gauss curvature. This, in particular, lists all translating solitons possibly model Type II singularities for convex closed solutions in all positive powers. The surfaces are entire graphs, and therefore our result corresponds to the Liouville theorem for the degenerate Monge--Amp\`ere equations detD2u=(1+Du2)212α\det D^2 u=(1+|Du|^2)^{2-\frac{1}{2\alpha}} on R2\mathbb{R}^2 in the range 0<α<1/40<\alpha <1/4. The result also reveals that the moduli spaces of solutions are homeomorphic to either Euclidean spaces or cylinders.

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@article{arxiv.2104.13186,
  title  = {Translating surfaces under flows by sub-affine-critical powers of Gauss curvature},
  author = {Beomjun Choi and Kyeongsu Choi and Soojung Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13186},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

In this revision, we (i) fixed a gap by proving a rigidity result in Section 3.5, and (ii) improved the result by determining the topology of the moduli space of translators in Section 5