Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 657-667.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(17)30028-0

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SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTIONS TO THE HYPERBOLIC MEAN CURVATURE FLOW

Chunlei HE, Shoujun HUANG, Xiaomin XING   

  1. School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China
  • Received:2015-07-22 Revised:2016-10-24 Online:2017-06-25 Published:2017-06-25
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported in part by a grant from China Scholarship Council,the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11301006),and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (1408085MA01).

Abstract: This article concerns the self-similar solutions to the hyperbolic mean curvature flow (HMCF) for plane curves, which is proposed by Kong, Liu, and Wang and relates to an earlier proposal for general flows by LeFloch and Smoczyk. We prove that all curves immersed in the plane which move in a self-similar manner under the HMCF are straight lines and circles. Moreover, it is found that a circle can either expand to a larger one and then converge to a point, or shrink directly and converge to a point, where the curvature approaches to infinity.

Key words: Hyperbolic mean curvature flow, self-similar solutions, curvature

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