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We provide a self-contained treatment of set-theoretic subsolutions to flow by mean curvature, or, more generally, to flow by mean curvature plus an ambient vector field. The ambient space can be any smooth Riemannian manifold. Most…

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

We give a sufficient condition ensuring that the mean curvature flow commutes with a Riemannian submersion and we use this result to create new examples of evolution by mean curvature flow. In particular we consider evolution of pinched…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Giuseppe Pipoli

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

In this paper, we study the convexity, interior gradient estimate, Liouville type theorem and asymptotic behavior at infinity of translating solutions to mean curvature flow as well as the nonlinear flow by powers of the mean curvature.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Changfeng Gui , Huaiyu Jian , Hongjie Ju

In this contribution we introduce a novel weak solution concept for two-phase volume-preserving mean curvature flow, having both properties of unconditional global-in-time existence and weak-strong uniqueness. These solutions extend the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Andrea Poiatti

In this paper we analyse the Euler implicit scheme for the volume preserving mean curvature flow. We prove the exponential convergence of the scheme to a finite union of disjoint balls with equal volume for any bounded initial set with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione , Emanuele Spadaro

We prove short-time existence of \phi-regular solutions to the planar anisotropic curvature flow, including the crystalline case, with an additional forcing term possibly unbounded and discontinuous in time, such as for instance a white…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-12 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

In this paper, we investigate two hyperbolic flows obtained by adding forcing terms in direction of the position vector to the hyperbolic mean curvature flows in \cite{klw,hdl}. For the first hyperbolic flow, as in \cite{klw}, by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Jing Mao

In this note, we study an obstacle problem for the elastic flow. We prove the local-in-time existence of weak solutions and discuss their relation to classical solutions when additional regularity is obtained. Related results concerning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Kensuke Yoshizawa

In this paper we study the Type IIb mean curvature flow. We first prove that if the convex entire graph $(y,u(|y|))$ over $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n\geq 2$, satisfying there exist positive constants $\epsilon$, $c$ and $N$ such that $ u'(r)\geq c…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Cheng

The line bundle mean curvature flow is a complex analogue of the mean curvature flow for Lagrangian graphs, with fixed points solving the deformed Hermitian-Yang-Mills equation. In this paper we construct two distinct examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Yu Hin Chan , Adam Jacob

We deal with the obstacle problem for the porous medium equation in the slow diffusion regime $m>1$. Our main interest is to treat fairly irregular obstacles assuming only boundedness and lower semicontinuity. In particular, the considered…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Riikka Korte , Pekka Lehtelä , Stefan Sturm

We propose a level-set method for a mean curvature flow whose boundary is prescribed by interpreting the boundary as an obstacle. Since the corresponding obstacle problem is globally solvable, our method gives a global-in-time level-set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Xingzhi Bian , Yoshikazu Giga , Hiroyoshi Mitake

We give a proof that Brakke's mean curvature flow under the unit density assumption is smooth almost everywhere in space-time. More generally, if the velocity is equal in a weak sense to its mean curvature plus some given \alpha-H\"{o}lder…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Yoshihiro Tonegawa

In this paper, we consider functionals related to mean curvature flow in an ambient space which evolves by an extended Ricci flow from the perspective introduced by Lott when studying a mean curvature flow in a Ricci flow background. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-12 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson

We prove under suitable hypotheses that convergence of integral varifolds implies convergence of associated mod 2 flat chains and subsequential convergence of associated integer-multiplicity rectifiable currents. The convergence results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Brian White

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to establish sufficient conditions under which the mean curvature flow supported on a hypersphere with exterior Dirichlet boundary exists globally in time and converges to a minimal surface,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We show some computations related to the motion by mean curvature flow of a submanifold inside an ambient Riemannian manifold evolving by Ricci or backward Ricci flow. Special emphasis is given to the possible generalization of Huisken's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-29 Annibale Magni , Carlo Mantegazza , Efstratios Tsatis

A submanifold in space forms is isoparametric if the normal bundle is flat and principal curvatures along any parallel normal fields are constant. We study the mean curvature flow with initial data an isoparametric submanifold in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Xiaobo Liu , Chuu-Lian Terng

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geometric evolution in heterogeneous media. Here we consider curvature driven fows of planar curves, with an additional space-dependent forcing term. Motivated by a homogenization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-29 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci