Geometric Evolution Equations and Poincare Inequalities

Ben Andrews
Stanford

Sunday, April 30
11:00AM

I will discuss some Poincare inequalities that arise naturally in situations where a geometric object undergoes deformations--for example, deformations of a hypersurface in Euclidean space, or a metric on a Riemannian manifold. I will show how these inequalities can be applied to parabolic evolution equations to prove so called "entropy" estimates, which lead in some cases to a detailed understanding of the singularities and long term behaviour of the flows.
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