Mean curvature flow of pinched submanifolds to spheres

Ben Andrews, Charles Baker

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    Abstract

    We consider compact submanifolds of dimension n ≥ 2 in ℝn+k, with nonzero mean curvature vector everywhere, and such that the full norm of the second fundamental form is bounded by a fixed multiple (depending on n) of the length of the mean curvature vector at every point. We prove that the mean curvature flow deforms such a submanifold to a point in finite time, and that the solution is asymptotic to a shrinking sphere in some (n + 1)-dimensional affine subspace of ℝn+k

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)357-395
    Number of pages39
    JournalJournal of Differential Geometry
    Volume85
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2010

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