Geometric flows have many applications in physics and geometry. The mean curvature flow occurs in the description of the interface evolution in certain physical models. This is related to the property that such a flow is the gradient flow of the area functional and therefore appears naturally in problems where a surface energy is minimized. The mean curvature flow also has many geometric applications, in analogy with the Ricci flow of metrics on abstract riemannian manifolds. One can use this flow as a tool to obtain classification results for surfaces satisfying certain curvature conditions, as well as to construct minimal surfaces. Geometric flows, obtained from solutions of geometric parabolic equations, can be considered as an alternative tool to prove isoperimetric inequalities. On the other hand, isoperimetric inequalities can help in treating several aspects of convergence of these flows. Isoperimetric inequalities have many applications in other fields of geometry, like hyperbolic manifolds.
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978-3-0346-0212-9 (9783034602129)
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Manuel Ritoré is professor of Mathematics at the University of Granada since 2007. His earlier research focused on geometric inequalities in Riemannian manifolds, specially on those of isoperimetric type. In this field he has obtained some results such as a classification of isoperimetric sets in the 3-dimensional real projective space; a classification of 3-dimensional double bubbles; existence of solutions of the Allen-Cahn equation near non-degenerate minimal surfaces; an alternative proof of the isoperimetric conjecture for 3-dimensional Cartan-Hadamard manifolds; optimal isoperimetric inequalities outside convex sets in the Euclidean space; and a characterization of isoperimetric regions of large volume in Riemannian cylinders, among others. Recently, he has become interested on geometric variational problems in spaces with less regularity, such as sub-Riemannian manifolds or more general metric measure spaces, where he has obtained a classification of isoperimetric sets inthe first Heisenberg group under regularity assumptions, and Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for metric measure spaces, among others.
Formation of Singularities in the Mean Curvature Flow.- Geometry of hypersurfaces.- Examples.- Local existence and formation of singularities.- Invariance properties.- Singular behaviour of convex surfaces.- Convexity estimates.- Rescaling near a singularity.- Huisken's monotonicity formula.- Cylindrical and gradient estimates.- Mean curvature flow with surgeries.- Geometric Flows, Isoperimetric Inequalities and Hyperbolic Geometry.- The classical isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean space.- Surfaces.- Higher dimensions.- Some applications to hyperbolic geometry.
