Some Aspects of the Dynamic of V=H−H

We consider the evolution of a surface Γ(t) according to the equation V=H−H, where V is the normal velocity of Γ(t), H is the sum of the two principal curvatures and H is the average of H on Γ(t). We study the case where Γ(t) intersects orthogonally a fixed surface Σ and discuss some aspects of the dynamics of Γ(t) under the assumption that the volume of the region enclosed between Γ(t) and Σ is small. We show that, in this case, if Γ(0) is near a hemisphere, Γ(t) keeps its almost hemispherical shape and slides on Σ crawling approximately along orbits of the tangential gradient ∇HΣ of the sum HΣ of the two principal curvatures of Σ. We also show that, if p∈Σ is a nondegenerate zero of ∇HΣ and a>0 is sufficiently small, then there is a surface of constant mean curvature which is near a hemisphere of radius a with center near p and intersects Σ orthogonally.