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In this paper we consider the prescribed mean curvature flow of a non-compact space-like Cauchy hypersurface of bounded geometry in a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time. We prove that the flow preserves the space-likeness condition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Gentile , Boris Vertman

We prove a non-collapsing property for curvature flows of embedded hypersurfaces in the sphere and in hyperbolic space.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Ben Andrews , Xiaoli Han , Haizhong Li , Yong Wei

In this note, we investigate the existence of smooth complete hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with constant $(n-2)$-curvature and a prescribed asymptotic boundary at infinity. Previously, the existence was known only for a restricted…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Bin Wang

This paper looks at the splitting problem for globally hyperbolic spacetimes with timelike Ricci curvature bounded below containing a (spacelike, acausal, future causally complete) hypersurface with mean curvature bounded from above. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Melanie Graf

We show the existence of a deformation process of hypersurfaces from a product space $M_1\times R$ into another product space $M_2\times R$ such that the relation of the principal curvatures of the deformed hypersurfaces can be controlled…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-30 José A. Gálvez , Victorino Lozano

We present a general existence proof for a wide class of non-linear elliptic equations which can be applied to problems with barrier conditions without specifying any assumptions guaranteeing the uniqueness or local uniqueness of particular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-06 Claus Gerhardt

A Lie hypersurface in the complex hyperbolic space is a homogeneous real hypersurface without focal submanifolds. The set of all Lie hypersurfaces in the complex hyperbolic space is bijective to a closed interval, which gives a deformation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-25 Tatsuyoshi Hamada , Yuji Hoshikawa , Hiroshi Tamaru

In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We present a generic condition for Lorentzian manifolds to have a barrier that limits the reach of boundary-anchored extremal surfaces of arbitrary dimension. We show that any surface with nonpositive extrinsic curvature is a barrier, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Netta Engelhardt , Aron C. Wall

We obtain sharp estimates involving the mean curvatures of higher order of a complete bounded hypersurface immersed in a complete Riemannian manifold. Similar results are also given for complete spacelike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian ambient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-17 L. J. Alias , M. Dajczer , M. Rigoli

We prove existence and stability of smooth entire strictly convex spacelike hypersurfaces of prescribed Gauss curvature in Minkowski space. The proof is based on barrier constructions and local a priori estimates.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Bayard , Oliver C. Schnürer

In this paper we are concerned with the problem of finding hypersurfaces of constant curvature and prescribed boundary in the Euclidean space, using the theory of fully nonlinear elliptic equations. We prove that if the given data admits a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-02 Flávio F. Cruz

We classify all real hypersurfaces with constant principal curvatures in the complex hyperbolic plane.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jurgen Berndt , Jose Carlos Diaz-Ramos

We prove existence and uniqueness of entire spacelike hypersurfaces in the Minkowski space with prescribed negative scalar curvature, and with given values at infinity which stay at a bounded distance of a lightcone.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Pierre Bayard

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed total geodesic curvature problem for generalized circle packing metrics in hyperbolic background geometry on surfaces with infinite cellular decompositions. To address this problem, we introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Xinrong Zhao , Puchun Zhou

In this paper, we consider the contracting curvature flow of smooth closed surfaces in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space and in $3$-dimensional sphere. In the hyperbolic case, we show that if the initial surface $M_0$ has positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We show that ruled real hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature in the complex projective and hyperbolic spaces must be minimal. This provides their classification, by virtue of a result of Lohnherr and Reckziegel.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Miguel Dominguez-Vazquez , Olga Perez-Barral

Mean curvature flows of isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres have been studied by Liu and Terng. In particular, it was proved that such flows always have ancient solutions. This is also true for mean curvature flows of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Xiaobo Liu , Wanxu Yang

Recently a new no-global-recollapse argument was given for some inhomogeneous and anisotropic cosmologies that utilizes surface deformation by the mean curvature flow. In this paper we discuss important properties of the mean curvature flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Ali Kaya