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March  2014, 13(2): 715-728. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.715

## Lifespan theorem and gap lemma for the globally constrained Willmore flow

 1 Department of Mathematics, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing 100048, China 2 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Normal University, Henan, 453007

Received  March 2013 Revised  July 2013 Published  October 2013

We study a fourth-order flow, which can be seen as a globally constrained Willmore flow. We obtain a lower bound on the lifespan of the smooth solution, which depends on the concentration of curvature for the initial surface and the constrained term. We also give a gap lemma for this flow, which is an important lemma in the study of the blowup analysis.
Citation: Yannan Liu, Linfen Cao. Lifespan theorem and gap lemma for the globally constrained Willmore flow. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2014, 13 (2) : 715-728. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2014.13.715
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