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It has long been conjectured that starting at a generic smooth closed embedded surface in R^3, the mean curvature flow remains smooth until it arrives at a singularity in a neighborhood of which the flow looks like concentric spheres or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

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

The skew mean curvature flow(SMCF), which origins from the study of fluid dynamics, describes the evolution of a codimension two submanifold along its binormal direction. We study the basic properties of the SMCF and prove the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Chong Song , Jun Sun

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 prove the existence of compact surfaces with prescribed constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat and asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. More precisely, let $(M^3,g)$ be an asymptotically flat manifold with scalar curvature $R\ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Liam Mazurowski , Jintian Zhu

We consider an axisymmetric closed hypersurface evolving by its mean curvature with driving force under singular initial hypersurface. We study this problem by level set method. We give some criteria to judge whether the interface evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-29 Ryunosuke Mori , Longjie Zhang

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

We consider inverse curvature flows in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space, $n\geq 2,$ expanding by arbitrary negative powers of a 1-homogeneous, monotone curvature function $F$ with some concavity properties. We obtain asymptotical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Julian Scheuer

We show that a mean curvature flow starting from a compact, smoothly embedded hypersurface M remains unique past singularities, provided the singularities are of mean convex type, i.e., if around each singular point, the surface moves in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Or Hershkovits , Brian White

There is an extensive and growing body of work analyzing convex ancient solutions to Mean Curvature Flow (MCF), or equivalently of Rescaled Mean Curvature Flow (RMCF). The goal of this paper is to complement the existing literature, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Sigurd Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We consider the problem of deforming a one-parameter family of hypersurfaces immersed into closed Riemannian manifolds with positive curvature operator. The hypersurface in this family satisfies mean curvature flow while the ambient metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Weimin Sheng , Haobin Yu

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

We derive an upper bound on the waiting time for a variational weak solution to Inverse Mean Curvature Flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ to become star-shaped. As a consequence, we demonstrate that any connected surface moving by the flow which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Brian Harvie

This paper gives some examples of hypersurfaces $\phi_t(M^n)$ evolving in time with speed determined by functions of the normal curvatures in an $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold; we emphasize the case of flow by harmonic mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Robert Gulliver , Guoyi Xu

Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold which either is compact or has a pole, and let $\varphi$ be a positive smooth function on $M$. In the warped product $M\times_\varphi\mathbb R$, we study the flow by the mean curvature of a locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-17 Alexander A. Borisenko , Vicente Miquel

In this article we consider the Lagrangian mean curvature flow of compact, circle-invariant, almost calibrated Lagrangian surfaces in hyperk\"ahler 4-manifolds with circle symmetry. We show that this Lagrangian mean curvature flow can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Jason D. Lotay , Goncalo Oliveira

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface in ${\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed is given by a smooth function depending only on the mean curvature, and satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Shunzi Guo

This paper studies the dynamics of mean curvature flow as it approaches a cylindrical singularity. We proved that the rescaled mean curvature flow converging to a smooth generalized cylinder can be written as a graph over the cylinder in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Ao Sun , Jinxin Xue

We present a numerical study of the local stability of mean curvature flow of rotationally symmetric, complete noncompact hypersurfaces with Type-II curvature blowup. Our numerical analysis employs a novel overlap method that constructs…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-01 David Garfinkle , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf , Haotian Wu

For a mean curvature flow of complete graphical hypersurfaces $M_{t}=\operatorname{graph} u(\cdot,t)$ defined over domains $\Omega_{t}$, the enveloping cylinder is $\partial\Omega_{t}\times\mathbb{R}$. We prove the smooth convergence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wolfgang Maurer