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Main Authors: Sinestrari, Carlo, Tenan, Jacopo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13091
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author Sinestrari, Carlo
Tenan, Jacopo
author_facet Sinestrari, Carlo
Tenan, Jacopo
contents We study the volume preserving mean curvature flow of a surface immersed in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold modeling an isolated gravitating system in General Relativity. We show that, if the ambient manifold has positive ADM mass and the initial surface is round in a suitable sense, then the flow exists for all times and converges smoothly to a stable CMC surface. This extends to the asymptotically flat setting a classical result by Huisken-Yau (Invent. Math. 1996) and allows to construct a CMC foliation of the outer part of the manifold by an alternative approach to the ones by Nerz (Calc. Var. PDE, 2015) or by Eichmair-Koerber (J. Diff. Geometry, 2024).
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spellingShingle Volume preserving mean curvature flow of round surfaces in asymptotically flat spaces
Sinestrari, Carlo
Tenan, Jacopo
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
We study the volume preserving mean curvature flow of a surface immersed in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold modeling an isolated gravitating system in General Relativity. We show that, if the ambient manifold has positive ADM mass and the initial surface is round in a suitable sense, then the flow exists for all times and converges smoothly to a stable CMC surface. This extends to the asymptotically flat setting a classical result by Huisken-Yau (Invent. Math. 1996) and allows to construct a CMC foliation of the outer part of the manifold by an alternative approach to the ones by Nerz (Calc. Var. PDE, 2015) or by Eichmair-Koerber (J. Diff. Geometry, 2024).
title Volume preserving mean curvature flow of round surfaces in asymptotically flat spaces
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13091