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Curvature flows in the sphere

Differential Geometry 2025-07-18 v4 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We consider contracting and expanding curvature flows in \Ss\Ss. When the flow hypersurfaces are strictly convex we establish a relation between the contracting hypersurfaces and the expanding hypersurfaces which is given by the Gau{\ss} map. The contracting hypersurfaces shrink to a point x0x_0 while the expanding hypersurfaces converge to the equator of the hemisphere \mcH(x0)\mc H(-x_0). After rescaling, by the same scale factor, the rescaled hypersurfaces converge to the unit spheres with centers x0x_0 \resp x0-x_0 exponentially fast in C\un(\Ss[n])C^\un(\Ss[n]).

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@article{arxiv.1308.1607,
  title  = {Curvature flows in the sphere},
  author = {Claus Gerhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1607},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

46 pages, v4: Some typos corrected, to appear in JDG

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