Contraction Maps Generated by Inverse Mean Curvature Flow
arXiv:2607.27711
The paper constructs area‑preserving Lipschitz contraction maps using inverse mean curvature flow, providing contractions from spheres to convex hypersurfaces and from disks to convex free‑boundary hypersurfaces, and applies these maps to prove Milman's contraction conjecture in dimension two and obtain spectral comparison results.
Abstract
We use inverse mean curvature flow to construct normalized-area-preserving Lipschitz contractions, in an approach analogous in spirit to the heat-flow construction of Kim and E. Milman. This yields contractions from the round sphere onto closed strictly convex hypersurfaces in the sphere, and from the flat disk onto strictly convex free-boundary hypersurfaces in the Euclidean ball. In dimension two, this proves E. Milman's contraction conjecture for Riemannian two-spheres and gives an analogous intrinsic result for nonnegatively curved disks whose boundary has geodesic curvature one. These maps also yield two-sided spectral comparison and map-level rigidity at the actual Lipschitz threshold, recovering a theorem of Lin, Wang and Xu.
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