α-Gauss Curvature flows with flat sides

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

In this paper, we study the deformation of the 2 dimensional convex surfaces in R3\R^{3} whose speed at a point on the surface is proportional to αα-power of positive part of Gauss Curvature. First, for 1/2<α\leq 1,weshowthatthereissmoothsolutioniftheinitialdataissmoothandstrictlyconvexandthatthereisaviscositysolutionwith, we show that there is smooth solution if the initial data is smooth and strictly convex and that there is a viscosity solution with C^{1,1}−estimatebeforethecollapsingtimeiftheinitialsurfaceisonlyconvex.Moreover,weshowthatthereisawaitingtimeeffectwhichmeanstheflatspotoftheconvexsurfacewillpersistforawhile.Wealsoshowtheinterfacebetweentheflatsideandthestrictlyconvexsideofthesurfaceremainssmoothon-estimate before the collapsing time if the initial surface is only convex. Moreover, we show that there is a waiting time effect which means the flat spot of the convex surface will persist for a while. We also show the interface between the flat side and the strictly convex side of the surface remains smooth on 0 < t < T_0undercertainnecessaryregularityandnon−degeneracyinitialconditions,where under certain necessary regularity and non-degeneracy initial conditions, where T_0$ is the vanishing time of the flat side.

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