Higher regularity of the inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow

Abstract

We prove an anisotropic analogue of the higher regularity theorem of Huisken and Ilmanen for inverse mean curvature flow. For an arbitrary smooth Minkowski norm, we first prove a Huisken--Ilmanen type Harnack estimate for smooth closed strictly star-shaped solutions. We then construct global smooth solutions starting from $C^1$ strictly star-shaped hypersurfaces with bounded nonnegative weak anisotropic mean curvature. Combining this construction with the asymptotic theory for weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow, we show that weak solutions starting from bounded smooth initial sets become smooth outside a compact set.