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In this paper we study the geometry of first time singularities of the mean curvature flow. By the curvature pinching estimate of Huisken and Sinestrari, we prove that a mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\R^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-20 Weimin Sheng , Xu-Jia Wang

In this paper, we show that the inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, initiating from a star-shaped, strictly $F$-mean convex hypersurface, exists for all time and after rescaling the flow converges exponentially…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Chao Xia

In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

A variant of the Gauss curvature flow for closed and convex hypersurfaces is considered. We reveal that if the initial hypersurface is pinched enough, then this property is preserved. Furthermore, based on some structure assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Jinrong Hu , Ping Zhang

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru

In this article, we study a locally constrained fully nonlinear curvature flow for convex capillary hypersurfaces in half-space. We prove that the flow preserves the convexity, exists for all time, and converges smoothly to a spherical cap.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

In this paper, we study a class of non-homogeneous anisotropic fully nonlinear curvature flows in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. More precisely, we consider a hypersurface $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ deformed by a flow along its unit normal with its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Weimin Sheng , Jiazhuo Yang

We consider closed immersed hypersurfaces evolving by surface diffusion flow, and perform an analysis based on local and global integral estimates. First we show that a properly immersed stationary (\Delta H \equiv 0) hypersurface in \R^3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Glen Wheeler

We classify the self-similar solutions to a class of Weingarten curvature flow of connected compact convex hypersurfaces, isometrically immersed into space forms with non-positive curvature, and obtain a new characterization of a sphere in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa , Chuanxi Wu

We provide explicit examples which show that mean convexity (i.e. positivity of the mean curvature) and positivity of the scalar curvature are non-preserved curvature conditions for hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space evolving under either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

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

We consider contracting flows in $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic space and expanding flows in $(n+1)$-dimensional de Sitter space. When the flow hypersurfaces are strictly convex we relate the contracting hypersurfaces and the expanding…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-11 Hao Yu

We study the evolution of compact convex curves in two-dimensional space forms. The normal speed is given by the difference of the weighted inverse curvature with the support function, and in the case where the ambient space is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Yong Wei , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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 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

In the first part of this paper, we study the following non-homogeneous, locally constrained inverse curvature flow in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, \begin{align*}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Yingxiang Hu , Mohammad N. Ivaki

The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Hangjun Xu

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

We consider the evolution of starshaped hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space by general curvature functions. Under appropriate conditions on the curvature function, we prove the global existence and convergence of the flow to a hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Ali Fardoun , Rachid Regbaoui