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We consider a class of abstract quasilinear parabolic problems with lower--order terms exhibiting a prescribed singular structure. We prove well--posedness and Lipschitz continuity of associated semiflows. Moreover, we investigate global…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-06 Jeremy LeCrone , Gieri Simonett

The mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of volume functionals on the space of submanifolds. We prove a fundamental regularity result of the mean curvature flow in this paper: a Lipschitz submanifold with small local Lipschitz norm…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

We prove the existence of the flow by curvature of regular planar networks starting from an initial network which is non-regular. The proof relies on a monotonicity formula for expanding solutions and a local regularity result for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Tom Ilmanen , André Neves , Felix Schulze

We prove the $C^{\alpha}$ regularity for weak solutions to a class of ultraparabolic equation, with measurable coefficients. The results generalized our recent $C^{\alpha}$ regularity results of Prandtl's system to high dimensional cases.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Liqun Zhang

We study the convergence of the system of the Allen-Cahn equations to the weak solution for the multi-phase mean curvature flow in the sense of Brakke. The Landau-Lifshitz equation in this paper can be regarded as a system of Allen-Cahn…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Keisuke Takasao

We establish the $\varepsilon$-regularity theorem for $k$-dimensional, possibly forced, Brakke flows near a static, multiplicity-one triple junction. This result provides the parabolic analogue to L. Simon's foundational work on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Salvatore Stuvard , Yoshihiro Tonegawa

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

In this paper, we prove the mean-convex neighborhood conjecture for neck singularities of the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for all $n\geq 3$: we show that if a mean curvature flow $\{M_t\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ has an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits , Brian White

We provide a connection between weak solution concepts of mean curvature flow. On the one side we have the viscosity solution which is based on the comparison principle. On the other, variational solutions, which are combined Brakke flows…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Tim Laux , Anton Ullrich

We prove that if the initial hypersurface of the mean curvature flow in spheres satisfies a sharp pinching condition, then the solution of the flow converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. Our result improves the famous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao

We develop a theory of surfaces with boundary moving by mean curvature flow. In particular, we prove a general existence theorem by elliptic regularization, and we prove boundary regularity at all positive times under very mild hypotheses.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

In this paper we aim to study the consistency of the mean curvature flow via discretization. We will use discretizations by volumetric varifolds, and derive a Brakke approximate equality involving the masses of the volumetric varifolds and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Abdelmouksit Sagueni

In this paper, we study the skew mean curvature flow. The results are threefold. First, we prove the global regularity of solutions with initial data which are small perturbations of planes in Sobolev spaces. Second, we prove the modified…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Ze Li

This paper defines a parabolic frequency for solutions of the heat equation along homothetically shrinking mean curvature flows and proves its monotonicity along such flows. As a corollary, frequency monotonicity provides a proof of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Julius Baldauf , Tang-Kai Lee

We prove the Multiplicity One Conjecture for mean curvature flows of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Specifically, we show that any blow-up limit of such mean curvature flows has multiplicity one. This has several applications. First, combining…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Richard H Bamler , Bruce Kleiner

Thermodynamically consistent models for two-phase flow in porous media have attracted significant attention in recent years. In this paper, we prove the existence, uniqueness and regularity of the weak solution to such a recent model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huangxin Chen , Jisheng Kou , Haitao Leng , Shuyu Sun , Hai Zhao

In this paper, we introduce a monotonicity formula for the mean curvature flow. We also apply this monotonicity formula to study the asymptotic behavior of eternal solutions.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-17 Yongbing Zhang

We define a (mean curvature flow) entropy for Radon measures in $\mathbb{R}^n$ or in a compact manifold. Moreover, we prove a monotonicity formula of the entropy of the measures associated with the parabolic Allen-Cahn equations. If the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Ao Sun

We introduce a parabolic blow-up method to study the asymptotic behavior of an integral Brakke flow of planar networks (i.e. a 1-dimensional integral Brakke flow in a two dimensional region) weakly close in a space-time region to a static…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-13 Yoshihiro Tonegawa , Neshan Wickramasekera