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A family of open sets with smooth boundary \(\ E_t\_0\le t \le T\) in \(\mathbb R^n\) is said to move according to volume-preserving mean-curvature flow if the motion law, expressed as an evolution equation for the boundaries \(\partial E_t\), takes the form
During a typical evolution, a volume-preserving mean-curvature flow exhibits singularities of different kinds, even in the case of smooth initial data. These singularities correspond to changes in the topology of the configuration and include shrinkage of islands to points and disappearance, collisions and merging of neighboring islands, pinch-offs etc... If the topology changes, the boundary of the evolving set looses regularity and, as a consequence, the formulation (1.1) of the evolution law is inadequate. The goal of the present work is the construction of a notion of a weak solution to the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow that is global in time and thus overcomes these singular moments.
Several solutions to volume-preserving mean-curvature flow have been proposed in the literature: existence and uniqueness of a global in time smooth solution and its convergence to a sphere is shown in [17, 22] for smooth convex initial data and in [15, 24] for initial data close to a sphere (for further related results see [4, 7, 8] and the references therein). In principle, these results also yield local in time existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions. In [30] and [31], the authors consider level-set and diffusion-generated solutions for the purpose of numerical studies. In Bellettini et al. [5], construct solutions for the volume-preserving anisotropic mean-curvature [or anisotropic variant of (1.1)] for convex sets using a method similar to ours (that will be outlined below). In this paper, it is also shown that the solution (the so-called flat flow) is unique and coincides with regular solutions when the latter are defined. We also mention a mean field approximation approach to the volume preserving mean-curvature flow as developed in [1, 6, 12].
It is well-known that volume-preserving mean-curvature can be (formally) interpreted as the \(L^2\)-gradient flow of the perimeter functional for configurations with a fixed volume, see, e.g., [29, Sect. 2]. This gradient flow structure, however, is for the purpose of well-posedness results impracticable, since the \(L^2\) (geodesic) distance is degenerate in the sense that two well separated configurations may have zero \(L^2\) distance [28]. In the present manuscript, we follow the method proposed independently by Almgren et al. [2] and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker [26] in the study of (forced) mean-curvature flows to bypass this difficulty. The authors consider an implicit time-discretization of the flow, which comes as a gradient flow of the perimeter functional with respect to a new non-degenerate distance function that approximates the \(L^2\) distance. The limiting time-continuous flow constructed with this method is usually referred to as the flat flow. The main difference between the present work and [2, 26] relies on the non-locality of the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow. As an immediate consequence, there is no maximum-principle available for (1.1). Also related to this aspect, there is the problem of proving the consistency of the scheme, i.e. the coincidence of the flat volume-preserving mean-curvature flow with the smooth one when the latter exists. Under some assumption on the Lagrange multiplier of the flow, the consistency can be inferred from the arguments in [2], but we do not know if these conditions are generally satisfied and we do not discuss further the problem of the consistency in this paper. A more detailed discussion on the different features of the flows in [2, 26] and the one considered in the present manuscript will follow in Sect. 3 below.
The article is organized as follows: in Sect. 2 we fix the notation and state the main results of the paper, which are then proved in Sects. 3 and 4 and are the existence of flat volume-preserving mean-curvature flows and the existence of distributional solutions, respectively.
and we write \(\mathrm Per(E):=\mathrm Per(E,\mathbb R^n)\). If the latter quantity is finite, we will call E a set of finite perimeter. In the case that E is an open set with \(\partial E\) of class \(C^1\), we simply have \(\mathrm Per(E,\Omega )=\mathcal H^n-1(\partial E\cap \Omega )\) and \(\mathrm Per(E)=\mathcal H^n-1(\partial E)\). The reduced boundary of a set of finite perimeter E is denoted by \(\partial ^* E\), cp. [16, Sect. 5.7], and for the unit outer normal to E we write \(\nu _E\). The tangential divergence of a vector field \(\Psi \in C^1(\mathbb R^n;\mathbb R^n)\) with respect to \(\partial E\) is defined by \(\mathrmdiv_\partial E\Psi := \mathrmdiv \Psi - \nu _E \cdot \nabla \Psi \nu _E\). We say that a set of finite perimeter E has a (generalized) mean-curvature \(H_E\in L^1(\partial ^* E,d\mathcal H^n-1)\) provided that
In this paper we introduce a notion of global flat solution to the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow which is based on the implicit time discretization of (1.1) in the spirit of Almgren et al. [2] and Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker [26]. That is, we consider a time-discrete gradient flow for the perimeter functional. For this purpose, we define
for any two sets of finite perimeter E and F in \(\mathbb R^n\). Here, h is a positive small number that plays the role of the time step of approximate solutions. The second term in the above functional approximates the degenerate \(L^2\) geodesic distance on the configuration space of hypersurfaces. The functional differs from the one considered in the original papers [2, 26] only in the last term: a weak penalization that favors unit-volume of minimizing sets.
The existence of minimizers \(E^(h)_kh\) and thus the existence of an approximate flat solution is guaranteed by Lemma 3.1 below. Incorporating the volume constraint in a soft way into the energy functional rather than imposing a hard constraint on the admissible sets has the advantage that we are free to chose arbitrary competitors, most notably in the derivation of density estimates. Thanks to the penalizing factor \(1/\sqrth\), the constraint becomes active in the limit \(h\downarrow 0\). Even more can be shown: the number of time steps in which approximate solutions violate the volume constraint \(E^(h)_t=1\) can be bounded uniformly in h, cf. Corollary 3.10 below. A similar functional including a soft volume constraint was recently considered by Goldman and Novaga [20] in the study of a prescribed curvature problem.
Our next statement is the existence of a distributional solution in the sense of Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker [26] to the volume-preserving mean-curvature flow under the hypothesis that the perimeters of the approximate solutions converge to the perimeter of the limiting solutions identified in the previous theorem.
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