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We prove the asymptotic roundness under normalized Gauss curvature flow provided entropy is initially small enough.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Mohammad N. Ivaki

We study contracting curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces with positive sectional curvature in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. The speed is assumed to be homogeneous of degree one in the principal curvatures and to satisfy certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Tianci Luo , Yong Wei , Rong Zhou

Consider a viscous fluid of finite depth below the air. In the absence of the surface tension effect at the air-fluid interface, the long time behavior of a free surface with small amplitude has been an intriguing question since the work of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-24 Yan Guo , Ian Tice

We prove some estimates for convex ancient solutions (the existence time for the solution starts from $-\infty$) to the power-of-mean curvature flow, when the power is strictly greater than 1/2. As an application, we prove that in two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Shibing Chen

This paper concerns the inverse mean curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces which are Lipschitz in general. After defining a weak solution, we study the evolution of the singularity by looking at the blow-up tangent cone around each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Beomjun Choi , Pei-Ken Hung

We consider the flow of closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed given by a power of the $k$-th mean curvature $E_k$ plus a global term chosen to impose a constraint involving the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Ben Andrews , Yong Wei

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

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 a one-parameter family of strictly convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ moving with speed $- K^\alpha \nu$, where $\nu$ denotes the outward-pointing unit normal vector and $\alpha \geq \frac{1}{n+2}$. For $\alpha >…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Simon Brendle , Kyeongsu Choi , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

We study a variant of the mean curvature flow for closed, convex hypersurfaces where the normal velocity is a nonhomogeneous function of the principal curvatures. We show that if the initial hypersurface satisfies a certain pinching…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Tim Espin

We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

In this paper we study the the Gauss image problem, which is a generalization of the Aleksandrov problem in convex geometry. By considering a geometric flow involving Gauss curvature and functions of normal vectors and radial vectors, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Li Chen , Di Wu , Ni Xiang

In this paper, we study the area-preserving and length-preserving $\kappa^\alpha$-type curvature flows of smooth, closed, convex curves in the two-dimensional hyperbolic plane $\mathbb H^2$ for $\alpha<0$ and prove that convexity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Zhishuai Liu , Guoxin Wei

We study the evolution of a concentrated vortex advected by a smooth, divergence-free velocity field in two space dimensions. In the idealized situation where the initial vorticity is a Dirac mass, we compute an approximation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Martin Donati , Thierry Gallay

We prove new pinching estimate for the inverse curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces in the space form $N$ of constant sectional curvature $K_N$ with speed given by $F^{-\alpha}$, where $\alpha\in (0,1]$ for $K_N=0,-1$ and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Yong Wei

We study the contraction of a convex immersed plane curve with speed (1/{\alpha})k^{{\alpha}}, where {\alpha}in(0,1] is a constant and show that, if the blow-up rate of the curvature is of type one, it will converge to a homothetic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-27 Yu-Chu Lin , Chi-Cheung Poon , Dong-Ho Tsai

We consider the quermassintegral preserving flow of closed \emph{h-convex} hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space with the speed given by any positive power of a smooth symmetric, strictly increasing, and homogeneous of degree one function $f$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Ben Andrews , Yong Wei

In this paper, by using new auxiliary functions, we study a class of contracting flows of closed, star-shaped hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed $r^{\frac{\alpha}{\beta}}\sigma_k^{\frac{1}{\beta}}$, where $\sigma_k$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Haizhong Li , Botong Xu , Ruijia Zhang

An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács