Paper · Apr 12, 2023

Parabolic evolution with boundary to the Bishop family of holomorphic discs

Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2304.05702

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Abstract

It is proven that a definite graphical rotationally symmetric line congruence evolving under mean curvature flow with respect to the neutral Kaehler metric in the space of oriented lines of Euclidean 3-space, subject to suitable Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, converges to a maximal surface. When the Neumann condition implemented is that the flowing disc be holomorphic at the boundary, it is proven that the flow converges to a holomorphic disc. This is extended to the flow of a family of discs with boundary lying on a fixed rotationally symmetric line congruence, which is shown to converge to a filling by maximal surfaces. Moreover, if the family is required to be holomorphic at the boundary, it is shown that the flow converges to the Bishop filling by holomorphic discs of an isolated complex point of Maslov index 2.

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Apr 12, 2023
Subjects
math.DG, math.AP, math.CV

Comments: 13 pages LaTeX. Includes the rotationally symmetric reduction of the evolution equations contained in arXiv:0808.0851

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