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Recently, B.Chow and R.S.Hamilton introduced the cross curvature flow on 3-manifolds. In this paper, we analyze two interesting examples for this new flow. One is on a square torus bundle over a circle, and the other is on a $S^{2}$ bundle…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Dezhong Chen

We investigate the low-energy behavior of the gradient flow of the $L^2$ norm of the Riemannian curvature on four-manifolds. Specifically, we show long time existence and exponential convergence to a metric of constant sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Jeff Streets

Given a closed 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric of negative sec- tional curvature, we consider the cross curvature flow an evolution equation of metric on M3. We prove long-time existence of a solution to the cross curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Wei-Hung Liao

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

The paper studies a curvature flow linked to the physical phenomenon of wound closure. Under the flow we show that a closed, initially convex or close-to-convex curve shrinks to a round point in finite time. We also study the singularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Shuhui He , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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 study almost-calibrated, $O(n)$-equivariant Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{C}^n$, and prove structural theorems about the Type I and Type II blowups of finite-time singularities. In particular, we prove that any Type I blowup…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-09 Albert Wood

In this paper, we study fully nonlinear curvature flows of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We prove that if the initial hypersurface satisfies certain conditions, then the flow exists for all time. Moreover, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow of submanifolds of arbitrary codimension in $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^m$. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then the mean curvature flow converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-26 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

We study curve-shortening flow for twisted curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ (i.e., curves with nowhere vanishing curvature $\kappa$ and torsion $\tau$) and define a notion of torsion-curvature entropy. Using this functional, we show that either the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Gabriel Khan

In this paper, we construct solutions of Lagrangian mean curvature flow which exist and are embedded for all time, but form an infinite-time singularity and converge to an immersed special Lagrangian as $t\to\infty$. In particular, the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Wei-Bo Su , Chung-Jun Tsai , Albert Wood

In this paper we study the local regularity of closed surfaces immersed in a Riemannian 3-manifold flowing by Willmore flow. We establish a pair of concentration-compactness alternatives for the flow, giving a lower bound on the maximal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Jan Metzger , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this article we show that generally almost regular flows, introduced by Bamler and Kleiner, in closed 3-manifolds will either go extinct in finite time or flow to a collection of smooth embedded minimal surfaces, possibly with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alexander Mramor , Ao Sun

In the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,k}$, we consider the mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifolds with spacelike codimension one and arbitrary timelike codimension $k$. We show that if the initial submanifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ben Andrews , Qiyu Zhou

In this paper we demonstrate that if two mean curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces $M^1_t$ and $M^2_t$ encounter only isolated, multiplicity one, asymptotically conical singularities at the first singular time $T$, and if $M^1_T=M^2_T$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-19 J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Or Hershkovits

For any $n$-dimensional smooth manifold $\Sigma$, we show that all the singularities of the mean curvature flow with any initial mean convex hypersurface in $\Sigma$ are cylindrical (of convex type) if the flow converges to a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding

In this note, we study the long time existence of the Calabi flow on $X = \mathbb{C}^n/\mathbb{Z}^n + i\mathbb{Z}^n$. Assuming the uniform bound of the total energy, we establish the non-collapsing property of the Calabi flow by using…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-09 Renjie Feng , Hongnian Huang

We prove long-time existence of the Ricci flow starting from complete manifolds with bounded curvature and scale-invariant integral curvature sufficiently pinched with respect to the inverse of its Sobolev constant. Moreover, if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Albert Chau , Adam Martens

We study the evolution of curves with fixed length and clamped boundary conditions moving by the negative $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy. For any initial curve lying merely in the energy space we show existence and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Fabian Rupp , Adrian Spener

In this paper we study $n$-dimensional Ricci flows $(M^n,g(t))_{t\in [0,T)},$ where $T< \infty$ is a potentially singular time, and for which the spatial $L^p$ norm, $p>\frac n 2$, of the scalar curvature is uniformly bounded on $[0,T).$ In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Jiawei Liu , Miles Simon