Lecture notes on mean curvature flow
By: Carlo Mantegazza
Series: Progress in mathematics -- v. 290; Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) -- v. 290.
Publisher: Birkhäuser/Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basel; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9783034801447; 9783034801454
Subjects: Global differential geometry; Flows (Differentiable dynamical systems); Curvature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Definition and short time existence; title: 2. Evolution of geometric quantities; title: 3. Monotonicity formula and type I singularities; title: 4. Type II singularities; title: 5. Conclusions and research directions.