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Volume preserving flow by powers of the \(k\)-th mean curvature. (English) Zbl 1458.53092

Summary: We consider the flow of closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) with speed given by a power of the \(k\)-th mean curvature \(E_k\) plus a global term chosen to impose a constraint involving the enclosed volume \(V_{n+1}\) and the mixed volume \(V_{n+1-k}\) of the evolving hypersurface. We prove that if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex, then the solution of the flow exists for all time and converges to a round sphere smoothly. No curvature pinching assumption is required on the initial hypersurface.

MSC:

53E10 Flows related to mean curvature
53A07 Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related \(n\)-spaces

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