(1) Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, NY, USA;(2) Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747, Korea
Abstract:
We study the all time regularity of the free-boundary problem associated to the deformation of a compact weakly convex surface in 3, with a flat side, by its Gaussian Curvature. We show that under certain necessary regularity and non-degeneracy initial conditions the interface separating the flat from the strictly convex side, remains smooth on 0<t<Tc, up to the vanishing time Tc of the flat side.