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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Mean curvature flow of graphs in warped products

Vicente F. Miquel MolinaA. A. Borisenko

subject

Mean curvature flowPure mathematicsMean curvatureApplied MathematicsGeneral MathematicsMathematical analysisRiemannian manifoldLipschitz continuityCurvatureGraphHypersurfaceMathematics::Differential GeometryMathematicsScalar curvature

description

Let M be a complete Riemannian manifold which either is compact or has a pole, and let φ be a positive smooth function on M . In the warped product M ×φ R, we study the flow by the mean curvature of a locally Lipschitz continuous graph on M and prove that the flow exists for all time and that the evolving hypersurface is C∞ for t > 0 and is a graph for all t. Moreover, under certain conditions, the flow has a well defined limit.

https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-2012-05425-0