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Width and flow of hypersurfaces by curvature functions
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Abstract:

In this paper, we generalize a well-known estimate of Colding-Minicozzi for the extinction time of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by their mean curvature to a much broader class of parabolic curvature flows.
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Additional Information
  • Maria Calle
  • Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany
  • Email: maria.calle@aei.mpg.de
  • Stephen J. Kleene
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
  • Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
  • MR Author ID: 915857
  • Email: skleene@math.jhu.edu, skleene@math.mit.edu
  • Joel Kramer
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
  • Email: jkramer@math.jhu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): April 18, 2008
  • Published electronically: October 14, 2010
  • © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
    The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication.
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 363 (2011), 1125-1135
  • MSC (2010): Primary 53C44
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-2010-05057-3
  • MathSciNet review: 2737259