Doubly periodic self-translating surfaces for the mean curvature flow

2012/04/22 by Xuan Hien Nguyen, Nguyen, Xuan Hien
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #math.DG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1204.4921

9 pages, 3 figures. One figure was added and the proof of Proposition 5 was clarified

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Abstract

We construct new examples of self-translating surfaces for the mean curvature flow from a periodic configuration with finitely many grim reaper cylinders in each period. Because this work is an extension of the author's article on the desingularization of a finite family of grim reaper cylinders, we simply discuss the ideas of the construction and here prove only that the periodic configuration has the necessary flexibility. These examples show that self-translating surfaces do not necessarily have quadratic volume growth rate in contrast to self-shrinking surfaces.

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