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Organizer(s) ABE Noriyuki, IWAKI Kohei, KAWAZUMI Nariya (chair), KOIKE Yuta
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2015/09/25

16:50-17:50   Room #大講義室 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Gerhard Huisken (The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach )
Mean curvature flow with surgery
[ Abstract ]
We study the motion of hypersurfaces in a Riemannian manifold
with normal velocity equal to the mean curvature of the
evolving hypersurface. In general this quasilinear, parabolic
evolution system may have complicated singularities in finite time.
However, under natural assumptions such as embeddedness of the surface
and positivity of the mean curvature (case of 2-dimensional surfaces)
all singularities can be classified and developing "necks" can be
removed by a surgery procedure similar to techniques employed
by Hamilton and Perelman in the Ricci-flow of Riemannian metrics.
The lecture describes results and techniques for mean curvature flow
with surgery developed in joint work with C. Sinestrari and S. Brendle.
[ Reference URL ]
http://www.mfo.de/about-the-institute/staff/prof.-dr.-gerhard-huisken