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Research Report MRR99-023

Volume-preserving anisotropic
mean curvature flow

Ben Andrews

Abstract: This paper concerns convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by anisotropic analogues of the volume-preserving mean curvature flow. The main result is that such hypersurfaces stay smooth and convex for all time, and converge to a limit determined by the anisotropy (the Wulff shape). The paper gives an introduction to Minkowski differential geometry, including analogues of metric, normal vector, and curvature; variation formulae; and mixed volumes and geometric inequalities.

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