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In this paper, we consider the evolution of spacelike graphic hypersurfaces defined over a convex piece of hyperbolic plane $\mathscr{H}^{n}(1)$, of center at origin and radius $1$, in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-20 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos

We obtain explicit solutions of the mean curvature flow in some submanifolds of the Euclidean space. We give particularly an explicit solution of the flow of a hypersurface in the Lagrangian self-expander $L$ which is constructed in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Hiroshi Nakahara

We study the convergence of an axially symmetric hypersurface evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

Mean curvature flows of hypersurfaces have been extensively studied and there are various different approaches and many beautiful results. However, relatively little is known about mean curvature flows of submanifolds of higher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mu-Tao Wang

In this paper we study the uniqueness of graphical mean curvature flow. We consider as initial conditions graphs of locally Lipschitz functions and prove that in the one dimensional case solutions are unique without any further assumptions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-07 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Mariel Saez

In this paper, we study the mean curvature type flow for hypersurfaces in the unit Euclidean ball with capillary boundary, which was introduced by Wang-Xia and Wang-Weng. We show that if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex, then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Yingxiang Hu , Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

We prove the Multiplicity One Conjecture for mean curvature flows of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Specifically, we show that any blow-up limit of such mean curvature flows has multiplicity one. This has several applications. First, combining…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Richard H Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

In this paper, using heat kernel estimates and contraction mapping principle, we give a new proof of the existence and uniqueness of mean curvature flow starting from hypersurface with bounded second fundamental form. Moreover, we show the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yongheng Han

We show that flatness of the normal bundle is preserved under the mean curvature flow in the Euclidean space and use this to generalize a classical result for hypersurfaces due to Ecker-Huisken in the case of submanifolds with arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Knut Smoczyk , Guofang Wang , Y. L. Xin

We consider the mean curvature flow of the graph of a smooth map $f:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}^2$ between two-dimensional Euclidean spaces. If $f$ satisfies an area-decreasing property, the solution exists for all times and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Felix Lubbe

Parametric finite elements lead to very efficient numerical methods for surface evolution equations. We introduce several computational techniques for curvature driven evolution equations based on a weak formulation for the mean curvature.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We consider the graphical mean curvature flow of maps ${\bf f}:\mathbb{R}^m\to\mathbb{R}^n$, $m\ge 2$, and derive estimates on the growth rates of the evolved graphs, based on a new version of the maximum principle for properly immersed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

We introduce a new geometric evolution equation for hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat spacetime initial data sets, that unites the theory of marginally outer trapped surfaces (MOTS) with the study of inverse mean curvature flow in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Kristen Moore

We study the mean curvature flow in 3-dimensional null hypersurfaces. In a spacetime a hypersurface is called null, if its induced metric is degenerate. The speed of the mean curvature flow of spacelike surfaces in a null hypersurface is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Henri Roesch , Julian Scheuer

As first noted in Korevaar, Kusner and Solomon ("KKS"), constant mean curvature implies a homological conservation law for hypersurfaces in ambient spaces with Killing fields.In Theorem 3.5 here, we generalize that law by relaxing the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Nick Edelen , Bruce Solomon

The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Hangjun Xu

In this paper we consider the evolution of a graph-like hypersurface by anisotropic mean curvature flow, under some restrictions on the anisotropic area integrand. We find interior estimates (in both time and space) on the gradient of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julie Clutterbuck

In this paper, we study the $k$-Hessian curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We first prove the existence of translating solutions with given asymptotic behavior. Then, we prove that for strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Qu Changzheng , Wang Zhizhang , Wo Weifeng

Error estimates are proved for an evolving surface finite element semi-discretization for anisotropic mean curvature flow of closed surfaces. For the geometric surface flow, a system coupling the anisotropic evolution law to parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Klaus Deckelnick , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács