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Mean curvature flow with free boundary on smooth hypersurfaces

  • John A. Buckland

Abstract

The classical mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces with boundary satisfying a Neumann condition on an arbitrary, fixed, smooth hypersurface in Euclidean space is examined. In particular, the problem of singularity formation on the free-boundary and the classification of the limiting behaviour thereof is focused on. A monotonicity formula is developed and used to show that any smooth blow up centred about a boundary point is self-similar, with smoothness of the blow up being shown to necessarily follow in the case of Type I singularities. This leads to a classification of boundary singularities for mean convex evolving hypersurfaces.

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Published Online: 2005-11-23
Published in Print: 2005-09-27

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