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We prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao

We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

In this paper, we introduce and study the conformal mean curvature flow of submanifolds of higher codimension in the Euclidean space $\bbr^n$. This kind of flow is a special case of a general modified mean curvature flow which is of various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Xingxiao Li , Di Zhang

In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces with a general forcing term. We show that the flow may shrink to a point in finite time if the forcing term is small, or exist for all times and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa

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

Under mean curvature flow, a closed, embedded hypersurface $M(t)$ becomes singular in finite time. For certain classes of mean-convex mean curvature flows, we show the continuity of the first singular time $T$ and the limit set "$M(T)$",…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Kevin Sonnanburg

We study graphical mean curvature flow of complete solutions defined on subsets of Euclidean space. We obtain smooth long time existence. The projections of the evolving graphs also solve mean curvature flow. Hence this approach allows to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Mariel Sáez Trumper , Oliver C. Schnürer

We study the mean curvature flow of smooth $m$-dimensional compact submanifolds with quadratic pinching in the Riemannian manifold $\mathbb{C}P^n$. Our main focus is on the case of high codimension, $k\geq 2$. We establish a codimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Artemis A. Vogiatzi

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 note we investigate the behaviour at finite-time singularities of the mean curvature flow of compact Riemannian submanifolds M^m_t\hookrightarrow (N^{m+n}, h). We show that they are characterized by the blow-up of a trace A = H…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-05-25 Andrew A Cooper

Singularities of the mean curvature flow of an embedded surface in R^3 are expected to be modelled on self-shrinkers that are compact, cylindrical, or asymptotically conical. In order to understand the flow before and after the singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Otis Chodosh , Felix Schulze

Given orientable Riemannian manifolds $M^n$ and $\bar M^{n+1},$ we study flows $F_t:M^n\rightarrow\bar M^{n+1},$ called Weingarten flows,in which the hypersurfaces $F_t(M)$ evolve in the direction of their normal vectors with speed given by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Ronaldo Freire de Lima

In [8] Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Heiko Kröner

In this paper, we first investigate a new locally constrained mean curvature flow (1.5) and prove that if the initial hypersurface is of smoothly compact starshaped, then the solution of the flow (1.5) exists for all time and converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 J. Cui , P. Zhao

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

The study of the mean curvature flow from the perspective of partial differential equations began with Gerhard Huisken's pioneering work in 1984. Since that time, the mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces has been a lively area of study.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-25 Charles Baker

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We study the mean curvature flow of complete space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space with bounded Gauss image, as well as that of complete submanifolds in Euclidean space with convex Gauss image. By using the confinable property…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. L. Xin

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 first study the behavior of inverse mean curvature flow in Schwarzschild manifold. We show that if the initial hypersurface $\Sigma$ is strictly mean convex and star-shaped, then the flow hypersurface $\Sigma_t$ converges…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Haizhong Li , Yong Wei