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In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in the unit ball. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface, and monotonically decreases an energy functional $E$. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

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

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

We study the line bundle mean curvature flow on K\"ahler surfaces under the hypercritical phase and a certain semipositivity condition. We naturally encounter such a condition when considering the blowup of K\"ahler surfaces. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Ryosuke Takahashi

In this paper we introduce two $1/\kappa^{n}$-type ($n\ge1$) curvature flows for closed convex planar curves. Along the flows the length of the curve is decreasing while the enclosed area is increasing. And finally, the evolving curves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Zezhen Sun

In this paper, we study a $1/\kappa^{n}$-type area-preserving non-local flow of convex closed plane curves for any $n>0$. We show that the flow exists globally, the length of evolving curve is non-increasing, and the limiting curve will be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Zezhen Sun , Yuting Wu

This paper demonstrates existence for all time of mean curvature flow in Minkowski space with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary manifold is a convex cone and the flowing manifold is initially spacelike. Using a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ben Lambert

It is known that principal orbits of Hermann actions on a symmetric space of non-compact type are curvature-adapted isoparametric submanifolds having no focal point of non-Euclidean type on the ideal boundary of the ambient symmetric space.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Naoyuki Koike

In this paper, we investigate the contracting curvature flow of closed, strictly convex axially symmetric hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ and $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by $\sigma_k^\alpha$, where $\sigma_k$ is the $k$-th elementary symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Haizhong Li , Xianfeng Wang , Jing Wu

We investigate the mean curvature flows in a class of warped product manifolds with closed hypersurfaces fibering over $\mathbb{R}$. In particular, we prove that under natural conditions on the warping function and Ricci curvature bound for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Zheng Huang , Zhou Zhang , Hengyu Zhou

In this paper, we will derive a small energy regularity theorem for the mean curvature flow of arbitrary dimension and codimension. It says that if the parabolic integral of $|A|^2$ around a point in space-time is small, then the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Xiaoli Han , Jun Sun

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

In this paper, we consider soliton solutions of the mean curvature flow in the unit sphere $S^{2n+1}$ moving along the integral curves of the Hopf unit vector field. While such solitons must necessarily be minimal if compact, we produce a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Marco Magliaro , Luciano Mari , Fernanda Roing , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We show uniqueness of cylindrical blowups for mean curvature flow in all dimension and all codimension. Cylindrical singularities are known to be the most important; they are the most prevalent in any codimension. Mean curvature flow in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos

We study almost-calibrated, $O(n)$-equivariant Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{C}^n$, and prove structural theorems about the Type I and Type II blowups of finite-time singularities. In particular, we prove that any Type I blowup…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Albert Wood

In this paper, we study a class of fully nonlinear contracting curvature flows of closed, uniformly convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ with the normal speed $\Phi$ given by $r^\alpha F^\beta$ or $u^\alpha…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Yusha Lv , Hejun Wang

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flows for an equifocal submanifold in a symmetric space of compact type and its focal submanifolds as initial data. It is known that equifocal submanifolds of codimension greater than one in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Naoyuki Koike

In this article, we study a locally constrained mean curvature flow for star-shaped hypersurfaces with capillary boundary in the half-space. We prove its long-time existence and the global convergence to a spherical cap. Furthermore, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Xinqun Mei , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

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