# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

April  2020, 40(4): 2017-2035. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020104

## A class of anisotropic expanding curvature flows

 School of Mathematical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

* Corresponding author: Weimin Sheng

Received  October 2018 Revised  October 2019 Published  January 2020

Fund Project: The authors were supported by NSFC, grant nos. 11971424 and 11571304.

In this paper, we consider an expanding flow of smooth, closed, uniformly convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean $R^{n+1}$ with speed $u^\alpha\sigma_k^\beta$ firstly, where $u$ is support function of the hypersurface, $\alpha, \beta \in R^1$, and $\beta>0$, $\sigma_k$ is the $k$-th symmetric polynomial of the principal curvature radii of the hypersurface, $k$ is an integer and $1\le k\le n$. For $\alpha\le1-k\beta$, $\beta>\frac{1}{k}$ we prove that the flow has a unique smooth and uniformly convex solution for all time, and converges smoothly after normalisation, to a sphere centered at the origin. Moreover, for $\alpha\le1-k\beta$, $\beta>\frac{1}{k}$, we prove that the flow with the speed $fu^\alpha\sigma_k^\beta$ exists for all time and converges smoothly after normalisation to a soliton which is a solution of $fu^{\alpha-1}\sigma_k^{\beta} = c$ provided that $f$ is a smooth positive function on $S^n$ and satisfies that $(\nabla_i\nabla_jf^{\frac{1}{1+k\beta-\alpha}}+\delta_{ij}f^{\frac{1}{1+k\beta-\alpha}})$ is positive definite. When $\beta = 1$, our argument provides a proof to the well-known $L_p$ Christoffel-Minkowski problem for the case $p\ge k+1$ where $p = 2-\alpha$, which is identify with Ivaki's recent result. Especially, we obtain the same result for $k = n$ without any constraint on smooth positive function $f$. Finally, we also give a counterexample for the two anisotropic expanding flows when $\alpha>1-k\beta$.

Citation: Weimin Sheng, Caihong Yi. A class of anisotropic expanding curvature flows. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2020, 40 (4) : 2017-2035. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2020104
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Anal., 27 (2017), 2131-2154.  doi: 10.1007/s12220-016-9755-2.  Google Scholar
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