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Streets and Tian introduced pluriclosed flow and symplectic curvature flow in recent years. Here we construct a curvature flow to unify these two flows. We show the short time existence of our flow and exhibit an obstruction to long time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Song Dai

We study a class of fourth order curvature flows on a compact Riemannian manifold, which includes the gradient flows of a number of quadratic geometric functionals, as for instance the L2 norm of the curvature. Such flows can develop a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-03 Vincent Bour

Metric currents are, in a certain sense, a metric analogous of flat currents, therefore are related to the geometry of the space and of their support. In this short note, we try to give some evidence for the previous statement, by showing…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-24 Samuele Mongodi

For any $n$-dimensional smooth manifold $\Sigma$, we show that all the singularities of the mean curvature flow with any initial mean convex hypersurface in $\Sigma$ are cylindrical (of convex type) if the flow converges to a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding

In this paper we will discuss how one may be able to use mean curvature flow to tackle some of the central problems in topology in 4-dimensions. We will be concerned with smooth closed 4-manifolds that can be smoothly embedded as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi , Erik Kjaer Pedersen

The mean curvature flow is an evolution process under which a submanifold deforms in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The hypersurface case has been much studied since the eighties. Recently, several theorems on regularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

It has long been conjectured that starting at a generic smooth closed embedded surface in R^3, the mean curvature flow remains smooth until it arrives at a singularity in a neighborhood of which the flow looks like concentric spheres or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

A submanifold in space forms is isoparametric if the normal bundle is flat and principal curvatures along any parallel normal fields are constant. We study the mean curvature flow with initial data an isoparametric submanifold in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xiaobo Liu , Chuu-Lian Terng

We study the action on currents and differential forms on compact Riemannian manifolds under $C^0$-limits of diffeomorphisms. Using tools from geometric analysis, measure theory, and homotopy theory, we establish several convergence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Steéphane Tchuiaga

We investigate the integral conditions to extend the mean curvature flow in a Riemannian manifold. We prove that the mean curvature flow solution with finite total mean curvature on a finite time interval $[0,T)$ can be extended over time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Hong-Wei Xu , Fei Ye , En-Tao Zhao

Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Dylan Cant

We consider two incidence problems for integral curves of vector fields. The first is an analogue of the Euclidean joints problem, in which lines are replaced by integral curves of smooth vector fields taken from some finite-dimensional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Kaiyi Huang , Betsy Stovall , Sarah Tammen

In [Vel94], Velazquez constructed a countable collection of mean curvature flow solutions in $\mathbb{R}^N$ in every dimension $N \ge 8$. Each of these solutions becomes singular in finite time at which time the second fundamental form…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Maxwell Stolarski

We obtain height, gradient, and curvature a priori estimates for a modified mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. As a consequence, we prove the existence of smooth, entire, longtime solutions for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jocel Faustino Norberto de Oliveira , Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira , Matheus Nunes Soares

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

The symmetry group of the mean curvature flow in general ambient Riemannian manifolds is determined, based on which we define generalized solitons to the mean curvature flow. We also provide examples of homothetic solitons in non-Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Xu Han , Zhonghua Hou

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

We consider the rescaled flow associated with a mean curvature flow that develops a compact singularity of multiplicity one. We prove that the ``decay order'' of such a rescaled flow is uniformly bounded. As a consequence, we prove a unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Sourav Ghosh

In this work it is shown that every integral varifold in an open subset of Euclidian space of locally bounded first variation can be covered by a countable collection of submanifolds of class C^2. Moreover, the mean curvature of each member…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Ulrich Menne

We prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao