An Intersection Principle for Mean Curvature Flow
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| author | Lee, Tang-Kai Payne, Alec |
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| contents | The avoidance principle says that mean curvature flows of hypersurfaces remain disjoint if they are disjoint at the initial time. We prove several generalizations of the avoidance principle that allow for intersections of hypersurfaces. First, we prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the intersection of two mean curvature flows is non-increasing over time, and we find precise information on how the dimension changes. We then show that the self-intersection of an immersed mean curvature flow has non-increasing dimension over time. Next, we extend the intersection dimension monotonicity to Brakke flows and level set flows which satisfy a localizability condition, and we provide examples showing that the monotonicity fails for general weak solutions. We find a localization result for level set flows with finitely many singularities, and as a consequence, we obtain a fattening criterion for these flows which depends on the behavior of intersections with smooth flows. |
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| spellingShingle | An Intersection Principle for Mean Curvature Flow Lee, Tang-Kai Payne, Alec Differential Geometry Analysis of PDEs 53E10, 35B05 The avoidance principle says that mean curvature flows of hypersurfaces remain disjoint if they are disjoint at the initial time. We prove several generalizations of the avoidance principle that allow for intersections of hypersurfaces. First, we prove that the Hausdorff dimension of the intersection of two mean curvature flows is non-increasing over time, and we find precise information on how the dimension changes. We then show that the self-intersection of an immersed mean curvature flow has non-increasing dimension over time. Next, we extend the intersection dimension monotonicity to Brakke flows and level set flows which satisfy a localizability condition, and we provide examples showing that the monotonicity fails for general weak solutions. We find a localization result for level set flows with finitely many singularities, and as a consequence, we obtain a fattening criterion for these flows which depends on the behavior of intersections with smooth flows. |
| title | An Intersection Principle for Mean Curvature Flow |
| topic | Differential Geometry Analysis of PDEs 53E10, 35B05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11600 |