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Fully nonlinear flows with surgery

Presenter
May 2, 2016
Keywords:
  • complex geometry
  • Riemannian geometry
  • geometric analysis
  • geometric flow
  • positive curvature
  • curvature flow
  • Ricci flow
  • singularities of flows
  • surgery on flows
  • hypersurfaces
  • convex geometry
MSC:
  • 53C55
  • 53C56
  • 53C44
  • 53C43
  • 53Cxx
  • 53-xx
  • 53C21
  • 53C20
  • 53C45
Abstract
We will present joint work with Gerhard Huisken on a fully nonlinear flow for hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds. Unlike mean curvature flow, this flow preserves two-convexity in a general ambient manifold. For this fully nonlinear flow, we establish a convexity estimate, a cylindrical estimate, and a pointwise curvature derivative estimate. These estimates allow us to extend the flow beyond singularities by a surgery procedure, similar to the ones developed by Hamilton and Perelman for the Ricci flow and by Huisken and Sinestrari for mean curvature flow.