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In this paper we consider a ``flow'' of nonparametric solutions of the volume constrained Plateau problem with respect to a convex planar curve. Existence and regularity is obtained from standard elliptic theory, and convexity results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 John McCuan

Answering a question by M. Struwe (Vietnam J. Math. 2020) related to the blow-up behaviour in the Nirenberg problem, we show that the prescribed $Q$-curvature equation $$\Delta^2 u=(1-|x|^p)e^{4u}\text{ in }\mathbb{R}^4,\quad…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Ali Hyder , Luca Martinazzi

In this paper, we investigate the general formulation for inextensible flows of curves in En. The necessary and sufficient conditions for inextensible curve flow are expressed as a partial differential equation involving the curvatures.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Önder Gökmen Yıldız , Murat Tosun , Sıddıka Ö. Karakuş

We investigate the existence of a curve $q\mapsto u_{q}$, with $q\in(0,1)$, of positive solutions for the problem $(P_{a,q})$: $-\Delta u=a(x)u^{q}$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded and smooth domain of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Uriel Kaufmann , Humberto Ramos Quoirin , Kenichiro Umezu

Analog to the classical result of Kazdan-Warner for the existence of solutions to the prescribed Gaussian curvature equation on compact 2-manifolds without boundary, it is widely known that if $(M,g_0)$ is a closed 4-manifold with zero…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Quôc Anh Ngô , Hong Zhang

In this paper we consider the problem of prescribing the $\bar{Q}'$-curvature on three dimensional Pseudo-Einstein CR manifolds. We study the gradient flow generated by the related functional and we will prove its convergence to a limit…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Ali Maalaoui , Vittorio Martino

Motivated by Pan-Yang [PY] and Ma-Cheng [MC], we study a general linear nonlocal curvature flow for convex closed plane curves and discuss the short time existence and asymptotic convergence behavior of the flow. Due to the linear structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-02 Yu-Chu Lin , Dong-Ho Tsai

We prove the existence of metrics with prescribed $Q$-curvature under natural assumptions on the sign of the prescribing function and the background metric. In the dimension four case, we also obtain existence results for curvature forms…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Flávio França Cruz , Tiarlos Cruz

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

In this work we analyze the existence of solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system: \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{rcll} -\Delta u & = & v^q+\a g & \text{in }\Omega , \\ -\Delta v& = &|\nabla u|^{p}+\l f &\text{in }\Omega , \\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Boumediene Abdellaoui , Ahmed Attar , El-Haj Laamri

We consider the following prescribed $Q$-curvature problem \begin{equation}\label{uno} \begin{cases} \Delta^2 u=(1-|x|^p)e^{4u}, \quad\text{on}\,\,\mathbb{R}^4\\ \Lambda:=\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}(1-|x|^p)e^{4u}dx<\infty. \end{cases}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Chiara Bernardini

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed curvature problem associated with a special Lin-Lu-Yau curvature on finite graphs of girth at least 6. We define the corresponding Calabi flow for this curvature type, and establish an equivalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yi Li , Jie Wang , Pingsan Yuan , Chao Zheng

In this paper the fractional Q-curvature problem on three dimensional CR sphere is considered. By using the critical points theory at infinity, an existence result is obtained.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-14 Chungen Liu , Yafang Wang

We study closed, embedded hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by fully nonlinear curvature flows, whose speed is given by a symmetric, monotone increasing, $1$-homogeneous, positive underlying speed function $F$ composed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Weimin Sheng , Ye Zhu

We present a conformal deformation involving a fully nonlinear equation in dimension 4, starting with positive scalar curvature. Assuming a certain conformal invariant is positive, one may deform from positive scalar curvature to a stronger…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-26 Matthew Gursky , Jeff Viaclovsky

Wang, Weng and Xia[Math. Ann. 388 (2024), no. 2] studied a mean curvature type flow for the smooth, embedded capillary hypersurfaces with a constant contact angle $\theta\in(0,\pi)$ and confirmed the existence of solutions by the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Linlin Fan , Peibiao Zhao

We discuss in this work the validity of the theoretical solution of the nonlinear Couette flow for a granular impurity obtained in a recent work [preprint arXiv:0802.0526], in the range of large inelasticity and shear rate. We show there is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Francisco Vega Reyes , Vicente Garzo , Andres Santos

We construct a one-parameter family of solutions to the positive singular Q-curvature problem on compact nondegenerate manifolds of dimension bigger than four with finitely many punctures. If the dimension is at least eight we assume that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-11 João Henrique Andrade , Rayssa Caju , João Marcos do Ó , Jesse Ratzkin , Almir Silva Santos

In this paper, we study inextensible flows of non-null curves in E^n,1. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for inextensible flow of nonnull curves in E^n,1.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Önder Gökmen Yıldız , Murat Tosun

In this paper it is hown that given any smooth, positive function f on a closed, smooth manifold of dimension greater than four and with positive Paneitz invariant, there exists a metric on M such that $Q_g$ = f.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-30 David Raske