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\alpha-Gauss Curvature flows with flat sides

Analysis of PDEs 2011-10-03 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the deformation of the 2 dimensional convex surfaces in R3\R^{3} whose speed at a point on the surface is proportional to α\alpha-power of positive part of Gauss Curvature. First, for 1/2<\alpha\leq 1,weshowthatthereissmoothsolutioniftheinitialdataissmoothandstrictlyconvexandthatthereisaviscositysolutionwith, we show that there is smooth solution if the initial data is smooth and strictly convex and that there is a viscosity solution with C^{1,1}estimatebeforethecollapsingtimeiftheinitialsurfaceisonlyconvex.Moreover,weshowthatthereisawaitingtimeeffectwhichmeanstheflatspotoftheconvexsurfacewillpersistforawhile.Wealsoshowtheinterfacebetweentheflatsideandthestrictlyconvexsideofthesurfaceremainssmoothon-estimate before the collapsing time if the initial surface is only convex. Moreover, we show that there is a waiting time effect which means the flat spot of the convex surface will persist for a while. We also show the interface between the flat side and the strictly convex side of the surface remains smooth on 0 < t < T_0undercertainnecessaryregularityandnondegeneracyinitialconditions,where under certain necessary regularity and non-degeneracy initial conditions, where T_0$ is the vanishing time of the flat side.

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@article{arxiv.1109.6699,
  title  = {\alpha-Gauss Curvature flows with flat sides},
  author = {Lami Kim and Ki-ahm Lee and Eunjai Rhee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6699},
  year   = {2011}
}
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