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An expansion of convex hypersurfaces. (English) Zbl 0746.53006

J. Differ. Geom. 33, No. 1, 91-125 (1991); corrigendum ibid. 35, No. 3, 763-765 (1992).
This is a contribution to the topic of ‘mean curvature flow’ and its analogues, but for expanding instead of contracting convex hypersurfaces. The author studies the motion of a smooth, closed, uniformly convex hypersurface in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) expanding in the direction of the outer unit normal vector, with speed given by a suitable function of the principal radii of curvature. The latter function is assumed to be symmetric, positive, homogeneous of degree one, and concave. It is proved that a smooth solution exists, the hypersurface remains smooth and uniformly convex for all time and that after suitable normalization it converges to a round sphere. The author’s approach involves studying the evolution equation satisfied by the support function of the expanding hypersurface.

MSC:

53A07 Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related \(n\)-spaces
35G10 Initial value problems for linear higher-order PDEs
35K25 Higher-order parabolic equations
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