{ "id": "math/0411010", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-10-31T15:17:16.000Z", "updated": "2004-10-31T15:17:16.000Z", "title": "Mean curvature flow with flat normal bundles", "authors": [ "Knut Smoczyk", "Guofang Wang", "Y. L. Xin" ], "comment": "19 pages, 1 figure", "categories": [ "math.DG", "math.AP" ], "abstract": "We show that flatness of the normal bundle is preserved under the mean curvature flow in the Euclidean space and use this to generalize a classical result for hypersurfaces due to Ecker-Huisken in the case of submanifolds with arbitrary codimension.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-10-31T15:17:16.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "53C44" ], "keywords": [ "mean curvature flow", "flat normal bundles", "euclidean space", "arbitrary codimension", "hypersurfaces" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 19, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math.....11010S" } } }