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Brakke's Mean Curvature Flow

An Introduction

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Authors:
  1. Yoshihiro Tonegawa

    1. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Is the first exposition of Brakke’s mean curvature flow, a subject that interests many researchers
  • Uses accessible language, not highly technical terminology, for all readers interested in geometric measure theory
  • Explains recent highly acclaimed research results of the mean curvature flow

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Mathematics (BRIEFSMATH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Preliminary Materials

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 1-21

  3. Definition of the Brakke Flow

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 23-32

  4. Basic Properties of the Brakke Flow

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 33-48

  5. A General Existence Theorem for a Brakke Flow in Codimension One

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 49-70

  6. Allard Regularity Theory

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 71-84

  7. Regularity Theory for the Brakke Flow

    • Yoshihiro Tonegawa
    Pages 85-97

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 99-100
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This book explains the notion of Brakke’s mean curvature flow and its existence and regularity theories without assuming familiarity with geometric measure theory. The focus of study is a time-parameterized family of k-dimensional surfaces in the n-dimensional Euclidean space (1 ≤ k < n). The family is the mean curvature flow if the velocity of motion of surfaces is given by the mean curvature at each point and time. It is one of the simplest and most important geometric evolution problems with a strong connection to minimal surface theory. In fact, equilibrium of mean curvature flow corresponds precisely to minimal surface. Brakke’s mean curvature flow was first introduced in 1978 as a mathematical model describing the motion of grain boundaries in an annealing pure metal. The grain boundaries move by the mean curvature flow while retaining singularities such as triple junction points. By using a notion of generalized surface called a varifold from geometric measure theory which allows the presence of singularities, Brakke successfully gave it a definition and presented its existence and regularity theories. Recently, the author provided a complete proof of Brakke’s existence and regularity theorems, which form the content of the latter half of the book. The regularity theorem is also a natural generalization of Allard’s regularity theorem, which is a fundamental regularity result for minimal surfaces and for surfaces with bounded mean curvature. By carefully presenting a minimal amount of mathematical tools, often only with intuitive explanation, this book serves as a good starting point for the study of this fascinating object as well as a comprehensive introduction to other important notions from geometric measure theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshihiro Tonegawa

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