Allen-Cahn approximation of mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds I, uniform estimates

• Adriano Pisante ^[1] ; Fabio Punzo ^[2]
  1. [1] Università de Roma La Sapienza

     Università de Roma La Sapienza

     Roma Capitale, Italia

     
  2. [2] University of Calabria

     University of Calabria

     Cosenza, Italia

     
• Localización: Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di scienze, ISSN 0391-173X, Vol. 15, Nº Extra 1 (Special volume), 2016, págs. 309-341
• Idioma: inglés
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  • We are concerned with solutions to the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation in Riemannian manifolds. For a general class of initial conditions we show nonpositivity of the limiting energy discrepancy. This in turn allows us to prove an almost monotonicity formula (a weak counterpart of Huisken’s monotonicity formula) which gives a local uniform control of the energy densities at small scales.

    These results will be used in [41] to extend previous important results from [31] in Euclidean space, showing convergence of solutions to the parabolic Allen- Cahn equations to Brakke’s motion by mean curvature in Riemannian manifolds.