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This work introduces the framed curvature flow, a generalization of both the curve shortening flow and the vortex filament equation. Here, the magnitude of the velocity vector is still determined by the curvature, but its direction is given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jiří Minarčík , Michal Beneš

This paper deals with a generalized length-preserving flow for convex curves in the plane. It is shown that the flow exists globally and deforms convex curves into circles as time tends to infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Laiyuan Gao , Shengliang Pan

We introduce a notion of uniform convergence for local and nonlocal curvatures. Then, we propose an abstract method to prove the convergence of the corresponding geometric flows, within the level set formulation. We apply such a general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Annalisa Cesaroni , Lucia De Luca , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

By carrying out a point-wise estimate for the second fundamental form, we prove a rigidity theorem of complete noncompact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in codimension one. Moreover, we derive an optimal growth condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Qun Chen , Hongbing Qiu

We study the evolution of a weakly convex surface $\Sigma_0$ in $\R^3$ with flat sides by the Harmonic Mean Curvature flow. We establish the short time existence as well as the optimal regularity of the surface and we show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-05 M. Cristina Caputo , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

We show that the blow-ups of compact solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^N$ initially satisfying the pinching condition $|A|^2 < c |H|^2$ for a suitable constant $c = c(n)$ must be codimension one.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Keaton Naff

This article describes the mean curvature flow, some of the discoveries that have been made about it, and some unresolved questions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brian White

The aim of this paper is to give two uniqueness results for the Dirichlet problem associated to the constant mean curvature equation. We study constant mean curvature graphs over strips of R^2. The proofs are based on height estimates and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurent Mazet

This article gives an alternative approach to the self-shrinking and self-expanding solutions of the curve shortening flow, which are related to singularity formation of the mean curvature flow. The motivation for the self-similar solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Márcio Rostirolla Adames

We study fully nonlinear geometric flows that deform strictly $k$-convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with pointwise normal speed given by a concave function of the principal curvatures. Specifically, the speeds we consider are obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Stephen Lynch

We show the consistency of a threshold dynamics type algorithm for the anisotropic motion by fractional mean curvature, in the presence of a time dependent forcing term. Beside the consistency result, we show that convex sets remain convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-24 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga , Berardo Ruffini

We give asymptotics for the level set equation for mean curvature flow on a convex domain near the point where it attains a maximum. It is known that solutions are not necessarily $C^3,$ and we recover this result and construct non-smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-05 Nick Strehlke

We find a new monotone increasing quantity along smooth solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in $\mathbb R^n$. As an application, we derive a sharp geometric inequality for mean convex, star-shaped hypersurfaces which relates the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Pengzi Miao

We study convex entire graphs evolving with normal velocity equal to a positive power of the mean curvature. Under mild assumptions we prove longtime existence.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Martin Franzen

We consider the evolution by mean curvature of smooth $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ which are compact and quadratically pinched. We will be primarily interested in flows of high codimension, the case $k\geq 2$. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

We consider the evolution by mean curvature flow of a closed submanifold of the complex projective space. We show that, if the submanifold has small codimension and satisfies a suitable pinching condition on the second fundamental form,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Giuseppe Pipoli , Carlo Sinestrari

We study the rescaled mean curvature flow (MCF) of hypersurfaces that are global graphs over a fixed cylinder of arbitrary dimensions. We construct an explicit stable manifold for the rescaled MCF of finite codimensions in a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Jingxuan Zhang

We investigate the asymptotic stability of the length-penalized elastic flow of curves with boundary points constrained to the $x$-axis in $\mathbb{R}^2$. The main tool in our analysis is the Lojasiewicz--Simon inequality, which is used to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Antonia Diana

We provide a direct proof of a non-collapsing estimate for compact hypersurfaces with positive mean curvature moving under the mean curvature flow: Precisely, if every point on the initial hypersurface admits an interior sphere with radius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Ben Andrews

In this work, we present a numerical study of the wave stability of steady solitary waves over a localised topographic obstacle through the full Euler equations. There are two branches of the solutions: one from the perturbed uniform flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-08 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr