Harnack estimate for mean curvature flow on the sphere

Abstract

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere ${\mathbb{S}}^{n+1}$ by their mean curvature. We prove a differential Harnack inequality for any weakly convex solution to the mean curvature flow. As an application, by applying an Aleksandrov reflection argument, we classify convex, ancient solutions of the mean curvature flow on the sphere.

to appear in Asian J. Math