Self-expanders of the mean curvature flow

Knut Smoczyk

Paper · May 12, 2020

Self-expanders of the mean curvature flow

Knut Smoczyk

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2005.05803

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We study self-expanding solutions $M^{m} \subset R^{n}$ of the mean curvature flow. One of our main results is, that complete mean convex self-expanding hypersurfaces are products of self-expanding curves and flat subspaces, if and only if the function $∣ A ∣^{2} /∣ H ∣^{2}$ attains a local maximum, where $A$ denotes the second fundamental form and $H$ the mean curvature vector of $M$ . If the pricipal normal $ξ = H /∣ H ∣$ is parallel in the normal bundle, then a similar result holds in higher codimension for the function $∣ A^{ξ} ∣^{2} /∣ H ∣^{2}$ , where $A^{ξ}$ is the second fundamental form with respect to $ξ$ . As a corollary we obtain that complete mean convex self-expanders attain strictly positive scalar curvature, if they are smoothly asymptotic to cones of non-negative scalar curvature. In particular, in dimension $2$ any mean convex self-expander that is asymptotic to a cone must be strictly convex.

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Submitted: May 12, 2020
Subjects: math.DG

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