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In this paper, we study surfaces which evolve by anisotropic mean curvature flow with contact angle boundary condition over a strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish a prior gradient estimate for smooth solutions to this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Can Cui , Nung Kwan Yip

Prescribing $\sigma_k$ curvature equations are fully nonlinear generalizations of the prescribing Gaussian or scalar curvature equations. Given a positive function $K$ to be prescribed on the 4-dimensional round sphere. We obtain asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-24 S. -Y. Alice Chang , Zheng-Chao Han , Paul Yang

This paper is devoted to establishing some results on the density and multiplicity of solutions to the fractional Nirenberg problem which is equivalent to studying the conformally invariant equation $P_\sigma(v)=K…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Zhongwei Tang , Heming Wang , Ning Zhou

Let $(M^{n},g_{0})$ be a $n=3,4,5$ dimensional, closed Riemannian manifold of positive Yamabe invariant. For a smooth function $K>0$ on $M$ we consider a scalar curvature flow, that tends to prescribe $K$ as the scalar curvature of a metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Martin Mayer

In this paper, a class of fully nonlinear flows with nonlinear Neumann type boundary condition is considered. This problem was solved partly by the first author under the assumption that the flow is the parabolic type special Lagrangian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 R. L. Huang , Y. H. Ye

We derive curvature flows in the Heisenberg group by formal asymptotic expansion of a nonlocal mean-field equation under the anisotropic rescaling of the Heisenberg group. This is motivated by the aim of connecting mechanisms at a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Giovanna Citti , Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Raffaele Grande

We establish the following theorem of Bernstein type for the first Heisenberg group: Let S be a C^2 connected H-minimal surface which is a graph over some plane P, then S is either a non-characteristic vertical plane, or its generalized…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nicola Garofalo , Scott D. Pauls

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 study a class of boundary value problems with $\varphi$-Laplacian (e.g., the prescribed mean curvature equation, in which $\varphi(s)=\frac{s}{\sqrt{1+s^2}}$) \begin{center} $-\left(\varphi(u')\right)'=\lambda f(u)\; \text{ on }(-L,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Hongjing Pan , Ruixiang Xing

While the Anomaly flow was originally motivated by string theory, its zero slope case is potentially of considerable interest in non-Kahler geometry, as it is a flow of conformally balanced metrics whose stationary points are precisely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Duong H. Phong , Sebastien Picard , Xiangwen Zhang

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

As the first step in the direction of the Hopf conjecture on the non-existence of metrics with positive sectional curvature on $S^2 \times S^2$ D.Gromoll and K.Tapp in [GT] suggested the following (Weak Hopf) conjecture (on the rigidity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Valery Marenich

In this paper we perform a refined blow up analysis of finite energy approximated solutions to a Nirenberg type problem on half spheres. The later consists of prescribing, under minimal boundary conditions, the scalar curvature to be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Mohameden Ahmedou , Mohamed Ben Ayed

We introduce action-driven flows for causal variational principles, being a class of non-convex variational problems emanating from applications in fundamental physics. In the compact setting, H\"older continuous curves of measures are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Felix Finster , Franz Gmeineder

We employ curvature flows without global terms to seek strictly convex, spacelike solutions of a broad class of elliptic prescribed curvature equations in the simply connected Riemannian spaceforms and the Lorentzian de Sitter space, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-26 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

We give a sufficient condition ensuring that the mean curvature flow commutes with a Riemannian submersion and we use this result to create new examples of evolution by mean curvature flow. In particular we consider evolution of pinched…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Giuseppe Pipoli

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

We revisit the well-known Curve Shortening Flow for immersed curves in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. We exploit a fundamental structure of the problem to derive a new global construction of a solution, that is, a construction that is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Patrick Guidotti

The mean curvature flow describes the evolution of a surface (a curve) with normal velocity proportional to the local mean curvature. It has many applications in mathematics, science and engineering. In this paper, we develop a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Yihe Liu , Xianmin Xu

The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of curvature functional in Finsler geometry and use its information to introduce the gradient flow on Finsler manifolds. For this purpose, we first prove that the space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-27 N. Shojaee , M. M. Rezaii