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In this paper we consider the prescribed mean curvature flow of a non-compact space-like Cauchy hypersurface of bounded geometry in a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time. We prove that the flow preserves the space-likeness condition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Gentile , Boris Vertman

We introduce a novel concept of coarse extrinsic curvature for Riemannian submanifolds, inspired by Ollivier's notion of coarse Ricci curvature. This curvature is derived from the Wasserstein 1-distance between probability measures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Marc Arnaudon , Xue-Mei Li , Benedikt Petko

In this paper we prove two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow of possibly non-compact hypersurfaces in general ambient complete Riemannian manifolds. These are applicable to a wide range of extrinsic geometric flow,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Dasong Li , John Man Shun Ma

We study the uniqueness of minimal submanifolds and the stability of the mean curvature flow in several well-known model spaces of manifolds of special holonomy. These include the Stenzel metric on the cotangent bundle of spheres, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-13 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mu-Tao Wang

In this article we give a complete description of the evolution of an area decreasing map $f:M\to N$ induced by its mean curvature in the situation where $M$ and $N$ are complete Riemann surfaces with bounded geometry, $M$ being compact,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-25 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

In this paper, using heat kernel estimates and contraction mapping principle, we give a new proof of the existence and uniqueness of mean curvature flow starting from hypersurface with bounded second fundamental form. Moreover, we show the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Yongheng Han

We study monotonic quantities in the context of combined geometric flows. In particular, focusing on Ricci solitons as the ambient space, we consider solutions of the heat type equation integrated over embedded submanifolds evolving by mean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-01 Efstratios Tsatis

We consider the smooth inverse mean curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces with boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},$ which are perpendicular to the unit sphere from the inside. We prove that the flow hypersurfaces converge to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we derived biharmonic equations for pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds of pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which includes the biharmonic equations for submanifolds of Riemannian manifolds as a special case. As applications, we proved…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Yuxin Dong , Ye-Lin Ou

In this paper, for a given compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric and a symmetric tensor, we establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for extension of cross curvature flow. We give an example of this flow on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Shahroud Azami

A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, we establish uniform and sharp volume estimates for the singular set and the quantitative singular strata of mean curvature flows starting from a smooth, closed, mean-convex hypersurface in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

We consider a one-parameter family of closed, embedded hypersurfaces moving with normal velocity $G_\kappa = \big ( \sum_{i < j} \frac{1}{\lambda_i+\lambda_j-2\kappa} \big )^{-1}$, where $\lambda_1 \leq \hdots \leq \lambda_n$ denote the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-09 S. Brendle , G. Huisken

We consider a volume preserving curvature evolution of surfaces in an asymptotically Euclidean initial data set with positive ADM-energy. The speed is given by a nonlinear function of the mean curvature which generalizes the spacetime mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jacopo Tenan

B. Y. Chen establish the relationship between the Ricci curvature and the squared mean curvature for submanifolds of Riemannian space form with arbitrary codimension. In this paper, we generalize the relationship between the Ricci curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Mehraj Ahmad Lone , Mohammad Jamali , Mohammad Hasan Shahid

We give a new proof for the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery of 2-convex hypersurfaces in $R^N$, as announced in arXiv:1304.0926. Our proof works for all $N \geq 3$, including mean convex surfaces in $R^3$. We also derive a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

We prove regularity, global existence, and convergence of Lagrangian mean curvature flows in the two-convex case. Such results were previously only known in the convex case, of which the current work represents a significant improvement.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

We prove that for the mean curvature flow of two-convex hypersurfaces the intrinsic diameter stays uniformly controlled as one approaches the first singular time. We also derive sharp $L^{n-1}$-estimates for the regularity scale of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Panagiotis Gianniotis , Robert Haslhofer

We consider (smooth) solutions of the mean curvature flow of graphs over bounded domains in a Lie group free up to step two (and not necessarily nilpotent), endowed with a one parameter family of Riemannian metrics $\sigma_\e$ collapsing to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-04 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti , Maria Manfredini

We consider a diffused interface version of the volume-preserving mean curvature flow in the Euclidean space, and prove, in every dimension and under natural assumptions on the initial datum, exponential convergence towards single "diffused…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Matteo Bonforte , Francesco Maggi , Daniel Restrepo