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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

We consider curvature flows in hyperbolic space with a monotone, symmetric, homogeneous of degree 1 curvature function F. Furthermore we assume F to be either concave and inverse concave or convex. For compact initial hypersurfaces, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-10 Matthias Makowski

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface $\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

Particle diffusion in a two dimensional curved surface embedded in $R_3$ is considered. In addition to the usual diffusion flow, we find a new flow with an explicit curvature dependence. New diffusion equation is obtained in $\epsilon$…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Naohisa Ogawa

We study contracting curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces with positive sectional curvature in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. The speed is assumed to be homogeneous of degree one in the principal curvatures and to satisfy certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Tianci Luo , Yong Wei , Rong Zhou

For a given smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ which is centered at the origin, we investigate the evolution of strictly mean convex hypersurfaces, which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

We introduce and study a one-parameter family of curve diffusion flows with a scale-critical cubic curvature term for closed immersed planar curves. We first classify all closed stationary solutions, showing that they are precisely circles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Tatsuya Miura , Glen Wheeler

The evolution of a rotationally symmetric surface by a linear combination of its radii of curvature equation is considered. It is known that if the coefficients form certain integer ratios the flow is smooth and can be integrated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Brendan Guilfoyle , Morgan Robson

This is a contribution to the program of dynamical approach to mean curvature flow initiated by Colding and Minicozzi. In this paper, we prove two main theorems. The first one is local in nature and the second one is global. In this first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Ao Sun , Jinxin Xue

In an ambient space with rotational symmetry around an axis (which include the Hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces), we study the evolution under the volume-preserving mean curvature flow of a revolution hypersurface M generated by a graph over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-27 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

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 the mean curvature flow of a closed hypersurface in the complex or quaternionic projective space. Under a suitable pinching assumption on the initial data, we prove apriori estimates on the principal curvatures which imply that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Giuseppe Pipoli , Carlo Sinestrari

We study closed, embedded hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by fully nonlinear curvature flows, whose speed is given by a symmetric, monotone increasing, $1$-homogeneous, positive underlying speed function $F$ composed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Weimin Sheng , Ye Zhu

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 study a class of flows of closed, star-shaped hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ with speed $(\sinh r)^{{\alpha}/{\beta}} \sigma_{k}^{{1}/{\beta}}$, where $\sigma_{k}$ is the $k$-th elementary symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Fang Hong

We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

This paper concerns closed hypersurfaces of dimension $n(\geq 2)$ in the hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{H}}_{\kappa}^{n+1}$ of constant sectional curvature $\kappa$ evolving in direction of its normal vector, where the speed is given by a power…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Shunzi Guo , Guanghan Li , Chuanxi Wu

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

We consider the area-preserving Willmore evolution of surfaces that are close to a half-sphere with a small radius, sliding on the boundary S of a domain while meeting it orthogonally. We prove that the flow exists for all times and keeps a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Jan-Henrik Metsch