

Preprint 78/2004
Mean curvature flow with flat normal bundles
Knut Smoczyk, Guofang Wang, and Yuanlong Xin
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Submission date: 03. Nov. 2004
Pages: 21
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MSC-Numbers: 53C44
Keywords and phrases: mean curvature flow
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Abstract:
We show that flatness of the normal bundle is preserved under the
mean curvature flow in and use this to generalize a
classical result for hypersurfaces by Ecker & Huisken in the case
of submanifolds with arbitrary codimension.