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.