Mean Curvature Flow in a Ricci Flow Background
Tóm tắt
Following work of Ecker (Comm Anal Geom 15:1025–1061, 2007), we consider a weighted Gibbons-Hawking-York functional on a Riemannian manifold-with-boundary. We compute its variational properties and its time derivative under Perelman’s modified Ricci flow. The answer has a boundary term which involves an extension of Hamilton’s differential Harnack expression for the mean curvature flow in Euclidean space. We also derive the evolution equations for the second fundamental form and the mean curvature, under a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. In the case of a gradient Ricci soliton background, we discuss mean curvature solitons and Huisken monotonicity.
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