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Inverse mean curvature flow
In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF) is a geometric flow of submanifolds of a Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold. It has been used to prove a certain case of the Riemannian Penrose inequality, which is of interest in general relativity.
Formally, given a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g) and a smooth manifold S, an inverse mean curvature flow consists of an open interval I and a smooth map F from I × S into M such that
where H is the mean curvature vector of the immersion F(t, ⋅).
If g is Riemannian, if S is closed with dim(M) = dim(S) + 1, and if a given smooth immersion f of S into M has mean curvature which is nowhere zero, then there exists a unique inverse mean curvature flow whose "initial data" is f.
A simple example of inverse mean curvature flow is given by a family of concentric round hyperspheres in Euclidean space. If the dimension of such a sphere is n and its radius is r, then its mean curvature is n/r. As such, such a family of concentric spheres forms an inverse mean curvature flow if and only if
So a family of concentric round hyperspheres forms an inverse mean curvature flow when the radii grow exponentially.
In 1990, Claus Gerhardt showed that this situation is characteristic of the more general case of mean-convex star-shaped smooth hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. In particular, for any such initial data, the inverse mean curvature flow exists for all positive time and consists only of mean-convex and star-shaped smooth hypersurfaces. Moreover the surface area grows exponentially, and after a rescaling that fixes the surface area, the surfaces converge smoothly to a round sphere. The geometric estimates in Gerhardt's work follow from the maximum principle; the asymptotic roundness then becomes a consequence of the Krylov-Safonov theorem. In addition, Gerhardt's methods apply simultaneously to more general curvature-based hypersurface flows.
As is typical of geometric flows, IMCF solutions in more general situations often have finite-time singularities, meaning that I often cannot be taken to be of the form (a, ∞).
Inverse mean curvature flow
In the mathematical fields of differential geometry and geometric analysis, inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF) is a geometric flow of submanifolds of a Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian manifold. It has been used to prove a certain case of the Riemannian Penrose inequality, which is of interest in general relativity.
Formally, given a pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, g) and a smooth manifold S, an inverse mean curvature flow consists of an open interval I and a smooth map F from I × S into M such that
where H is the mean curvature vector of the immersion F(t, ⋅).
If g is Riemannian, if S is closed with dim(M) = dim(S) + 1, and if a given smooth immersion f of S into M has mean curvature which is nowhere zero, then there exists a unique inverse mean curvature flow whose "initial data" is f.
A simple example of inverse mean curvature flow is given by a family of concentric round hyperspheres in Euclidean space. If the dimension of such a sphere is n and its radius is r, then its mean curvature is n/r. As such, such a family of concentric spheres forms an inverse mean curvature flow if and only if
So a family of concentric round hyperspheres forms an inverse mean curvature flow when the radii grow exponentially.
In 1990, Claus Gerhardt showed that this situation is characteristic of the more general case of mean-convex star-shaped smooth hypersurfaces of Euclidean space. In particular, for any such initial data, the inverse mean curvature flow exists for all positive time and consists only of mean-convex and star-shaped smooth hypersurfaces. Moreover the surface area grows exponentially, and after a rescaling that fixes the surface area, the surfaces converge smoothly to a round sphere. The geometric estimates in Gerhardt's work follow from the maximum principle; the asymptotic roundness then becomes a consequence of the Krylov-Safonov theorem. In addition, Gerhardt's methods apply simultaneously to more general curvature-based hypersurface flows.
As is typical of geometric flows, IMCF solutions in more general situations often have finite-time singularities, meaning that I often cannot be taken to be of the form (a, ∞).