Extrinsic Geometric Flows
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Extrinsic Geometric Flows

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About this book

Extrinsic geometric flows are characterized by a submanifold evolving in an ambient space with velocity determined by its extrinsic curvature. The goal of this book is to give an extensive introduction to a few of the most prominent extrinsic flows, namely, the curve shortening flow, the mean curvature flow, the Gauß curvature flow, the inverse-mean curvature flow, and fully nonlinear flows of mean curvature and inverse-mean curvature type. The authors highlight techniques and behaviors that frequently arise in the study of these (and other) flows. To illustrate the broad applicability of the techniques developed, they also consider general classes of fully nonlinear curvature flows.The book is written at the level of a graduate student who has had a basic course in differential geometry and has some familiarity with partial differential equations. It is intended also to be useful as a reference for specialists. In general, the authors provide detailed proofs, although for some more specialized results they may only present the main ideas; in such cases, they provide references for complete proofs. A brief survey of additional topics, with extensive references, can be found in the notes and commentary at the end of each chapter.

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Yes, you can access Extrinsic Geometric Flows by Ben Andrews,Bennett Chow,Christine Guenther,Mat Langford in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Mathematics General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Preface
  4. A Guide for the Reader
  5. Suggested Course Outlines
  6. Notation and Symbols
  7. Chapter 1. The Heat Equation
  8. Chapter 2. Introduction to Curve Shortening
  9. Chapter 3. The Gage–Hamilton–Grayson Theorem
  10. Chapter 4. Self-Similar and Ancient Solutions
  11. Chapter 5. Hypersurfaces in Euclidean Space
  12. Chapter 6. Introduction to Mean Curvature Flow
  13. Chapter 7. Mean Curvature Flow of Entire Graphs
  14. Chapter 8. Huisken’s Theorem
  15. Chapter 9. Mean Convex Mean Curvature Flow
  16. Chapter 10. Monotonicity Formulae
  17. Chapter 11. Singularity Analysis
  18. Chapter 12. Noncollapsing
  19. Chapter 13. Self-Similar Solutions
  20. Chapter 14. Ancient Solutions
  21. Chapter 15. Gauß Curvature Flows
  22. Chapter 16. The Affine Normal Flow
  23. Chapter 17. Flows by Superaffine Powers of the Gauß Curvature
  24. Chapter 18. Fully Nonlinear Curvature Flows
  25. Chapter 19. Flows of Mean Curvature Type
  26. Chapter 20. Flows of Inverse-Mean Curvature Type
  27. Bibliography
  28. Index
  29. Back Cover