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In this paper, we study fully nonlinear curvature flows of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We prove that if the initial hypersurface satisfies certain conditions, then the flow exists for all time. Moreover, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

We consider the evolution by inverse mean curvature flow of a closed, mean convex and star-shaped hypersurface in the complex hyperbolic space. We prove that the flow is defined for any positive time, the evolving hypersurface stays…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Giuseppe Pipoli

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

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow with driving force on fixed extreme points in the plane. We give a general local existence and uniqueness result of this problem with $C^2$ initial curve. For a special family of initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Longjie Zhang

We study expansions near the boundary of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the constant mean curvature equation in the hyperbolic space. With a characterization of remainders of the expansion by multiple integrals, we establish optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Qing Han , Yue Wang

Several non-local curvature flows for plane curves with a general rotation number are discussed in this work. The types of flows include the area-preserving flow and the length-preserving flow. We have a relatively good understanding of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Takeyuki Nagasawa , Kohei Nakamura

In this paper we continue our study of finding the curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with a prescribed asymptotic boundary at infinity. Our main results are proved by deriving a priori global gradient estimates…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Ling Xiao

In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in a horoball in hyperbolic space. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface and monotonically decreases the energy…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Jinyu Guo

In this paper, the authors consider an initial boundary value problem for the heat flow of equation of surfaces with constant mean curvatures, which was investigated in [On the heat flow of equation of surfaces of constant mean curvatures,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Haixia Li

We establish the well-posedness of the nonlocal mean curvature flow of order ${\alpha\in(0,1)}$ for periodic graphs on $\mathbb{R}^n$ in all subcritical little H\"older spaces ${\rm h}^{1+\beta}(\mathbb{T}^n)$ with $\beta\in(0,1)$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Christoph Walker

It is shown that a hypersurface of a space form is the initial data for a solution to the mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces if, and only if, it is isoparametric. By solving an ordinary differential equation, explicit solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Hiuri Fellipe Santos dos Reis , Keti Tenenblat

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolic geometric flow on Riemann surfaces. This new nonlinear geometric evolution equation was recently introduced by the first two authors motivated by Einstein equation and Hamilton's Ricci flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , De-Liang Xu

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

Under mean curvature flow, a closed, embedded hypersurface $M(t)$ becomes singular in finite time. For certain classes of mean-convex mean curvature flows, we show the continuity of the first singular time $T$ and the limit set "$M(T)$",…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Kevin Sonnanburg

This paper gives some examples of hypersurfaces $\phi_t(M^n)$ evolving in time with speed determined by functions of the normal curvatures in an $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold; we emphasize the case of flow by harmonic mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Robert Gulliver , Guoyi Xu

Consider a convex cone in three-dimensional Minkowski space which either contains the lightcone or is contained in it. This work considers mean curvature flow of a proper spacelike strictly mean convex disc in the cone which is graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wilhelm Klingenberg , Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

In this paper we study the curvature flow of a curve in a plane endowed with a minkowskian norm whose unit ball is smooth. We show that many of the properties known in the euclidean case can be extended (with due adaptations) to this new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Vitor Balestro , Marcos Craizer , Ralph C. Teixeira

In this article, we establish the existence of a family of hypersurfaces $(\Gamma (t))_{0< t \leq T}$ which evolve by the vanishing mean curvature flow in Minkowski space and which as $t$ tends to~$0$ blow up towards a hypersurface which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hajer Bahouri , Alaa Marachli , Galina Perelman

In this paper, we study the $\sigma_k$ curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We prove that if the initial hypersurface satisfies certain conditions, then the flow exists for all time. Moreover, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao