A monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow with surgery
Differential Geometry
2015-09-01 v2
Abstract
We prove a monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow with surgery. This formula differs from Huisken's monotonicity formula by an extra term involving the mean curvature. As a consequence, we show that a surgically modified flow which is sufficiently close to a smooth flow in the sense of geometric measure theory is, in fact, free of surgeries. This result has applications to the longtime behavior of mean curvature flow with surgery in Riemannian three-manifolds.
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@article{arxiv.1312.0262,
title = {A monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow with surgery},
author = {S. Brendle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0262},
year = {2015}
}
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