Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
839450 Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 2015 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider (smooth) solutions of the mean curvature flow of graphs over bounded domains in a Lie group free up to step two (and not necessarily nilpotent), endowed with a one parameter family of Riemannian metrics σϵσϵ collapsing to a subRiemannian metric σ0σ0 as ϵ→0ϵ→0. We establish Ck,αCk,α estimates for this flow, that are uniform as ϵ→0ϵ→0 and as a consequence prove long time existence for the subRiemannian mean curvature flow of the graph. Our proof extend to the setting of every step two Carnot group (not necessarily free) and can be adapted following our previous work in Capogna et al. (2013) to the total variation flow.

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