Stability of the Volume Preserving Mean Curvature Flow in Hyperbolic Space

Abstract

We consider the dynamic property of the volume preserving mean curvature flow. This flow was introduced by Huisken (J Reine Angew Math 382:35–48, 1987) who also proved it converges to a round sphere of the same enclosed volume if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex in Euclidean space. We study the stability of this flow in hyperbolic space. In particular, we prove that if the initial hypersurface is hyperbolically mean convex and close to an umbilical sphere in the $L^2$-sense, then the flow exists for all time and converges exponentially to an umbilical sphere.