A flow method for curvature equations
Abstract
We consider a general curvature equation $F(\kappa)=G(X,\nu(X))$, where $\kappa$ is the principal curvature of the hypersurface $M$ with position vector $X$. It includes the classical prescribed curvature measures problem and area measures problem. However, Guan-Ren-Wang \cite{GRW} proved that the $C^2$ estimate fails usually for general function $F$. Thus, in this paper, we pose some additional conditions of $G$ to get existence results by a suitably designed parabolic flow. In particular, if $F=\sigma_{k}^\frac{1}{k}$ for $\forall 1\le k\le n-1$, the existence result has been derived in the famous work \cite{GLL} with $G=\psi(\frac{X}{|X|})\langle X,\nu\rangle^{\frac1k}{|X|^{-\frac{n+1}{k}}}$. This result will be generalized to $G=\psi(\frac{X}{|X|})\langle X,\nu\rangle^\frac{1-p}{k}|X|^\frac{q-k-1}{k}$ with $p>q$ for arbitrary $k$ by a suitable auxiliary function. The uniqueness of the solutions in some cases is also studied.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2023
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- arXiv:
- arXiv:2307.14096
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230714096D
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs;
- Mathematics - Differential Geometry