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Stability and convergence of full discretizations of various surface evolution equations are studied in this paper. The proposed discretization combines a higher-order evolving-surface finite element method (ESFEM) for space discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

A discrete conformality for polyhedral metrics on surfaces is introduced in this paper which generalizes earlier work on the subject. It is shown that each polyhedral metric on a surface is discrete conformal to a constant curvature…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-09-18 Xianfeng Gu , Feng Luo , Jian Sun , Tianqi Wu

In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces with a general forcing term. We show that the flow may shrink to a point in finite time if the forcing term is small, or exist for all times and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-17 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa

The solutions to surface evolution problems like mean curvature flow can be expressed as value functions of suitable stochastic control problems, obtained as limit of a family of regularised control problems. The control-theoretical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Nicolas Dirr , Federica Dragoni , Raffaele Grande

The only non-compact linearly stable singularity models for mean curvature flow are cylindrical by Colding-Minicozzi. The uniqueness of blowups at singularities modeled on the cylinders has been established by the same authors. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Sourav Ghosh

We prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao

Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

Surfaces that evolve by mean curvature flow develop singularities. These singularities can be modeled by self-shrinkers, surfaces that shrink by dilations under the flow. Singularities modeled on classical self-shrinkers, namely spheres and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Yakov Berchenko-Kogan

We discuss notions of Gauss curvature and mean curvature for polyhedral surfaces. The discretizations are guided by the principle of preserving integral relations for curvatures, like the Gauss/Bonnet theorem and the mean-curvature force…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-10-25 John M. Sullivan

We study some properties of mean curvature flow solitons in general Riemannian manifolds and in warped products, with emphasis on constant curvature and Schwarzschild type spaces. We focus on splitting and rigidity results under various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Giulio Colombo , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

We obtain height, gradient, and curvature a priori estimates for a modified mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. As a consequence, we prove the existence of smooth, entire, longtime solutions for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jocel Faustino Norberto de Oliveira , Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira , Matheus Nunes Soares

An asymptotic interface equation for directional solidification near the absolute stabiliy limit is extended by a nonlocal term describing a shear flow parallel to the interface. In the long-wave limit considered, the flow acts…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Yannick Marietti , Jean-Marc Debierre , Thomas-Michael Bock , Klaus Kassner

Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Dylan Cant

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for a class of crystalline mean curvature flows with natural mobility is proved. The results are valid in any dimension and for arbitrary, possibly unbounded, initial closed sets. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione

We introduce in this paper new and very effective numerical methods based on neural networks for the approximation of the mean curvature flow of either oriented or non-orientable surfaces. To learn the correct interface evolution law, our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Elie Bretin , Roland Denis , Simon Masnou , Garry Terii

In this paper, we study the regularized mean curvature flow starting from invariant hypersurfaces in a Hilbert space equipped with an isometric almost free Hilbert Lie group action whose orbits are minimal regularizable submanifolds, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Naoyuki Koike

In this paper, we produce explicit examples of mean curvature flow of (2m-1)-dimensional submanifolds which converge to (2m-2)-dimensional submanifolds at a finite time. These examples are a special class of hyperspheres in $\mathbb{C}^{m}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Farnaz Ghanbari , Samreena

We give an overview of the existence and regularity results for curvature flows and how these flows can be used to solve some problems in geometry and physics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Claus Gerhardt

We consider variational problems that model the bending behavior of curves that are constrained to belong to given hypersurfaces. Finite element discretizations of corresponding functionals are justified rigorously via Gamma-convergence.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Sören Bartels

We establish short-time existence of the smooth solution to the fractional mean curvature flow when the initial set is bounded and C^{1,1}-regular. We provide the same result also for the volume preserving fractional mean curvature flow.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Vesa Julin , Domenico La Manna