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The capillary Gauss curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2025-06-12 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this article, we first introduce a Gauss curvature type flow for capillary hypersurfaces, which we call capillary Gauss curvature flow. We then show that the flow will shrink to a point in finite time. This is a capillary counterpart (or Robin boundary counterpart) of Firey's problem studied in [Mathematika 21 (1974), pp. 1-11] and Tso [Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 38 (1985), no. 6, 867-882]. Finally, we prove that its normalized flow converges to a soliton. This is a capillary counterpart of the result of Guan and Ni in [J. Eur. Math. Soc. 19 (2017), no. 12, 3735-3761]. The classification of solitons remains an open conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2506.09840,
  title  = {The capillary Gauss curvature flow},
  author = {Xinqun Mei and Guofang Wang and Liangjun Weng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.09840},
  year   = {2025}
}

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46 pages

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