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We describe the evolution under the mean curvature flow of embedded Lagrangian spherical surfaces in the complex Euclidean plane $\mathbb{C}^2$. In particular, we answer the Question 4.7 addressed in [Ne10b] by A. Neves about finding out a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Ildefonso Castro , Ana M. Lerma , Vicente Miquel

We construct new examples of immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected hypersurfaces in closed manifolds, which converge to minimal hypersurfaces with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jingwen Chen , Ao Sun

Let \Sigma be a compact oriented surface immersed in a four dimensional K\"ahler-Einstein manifold M. We consider the evolution of \Sigma in the direction of its mean curvature vector. It is proved that being symplectic is preserved along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

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 introduce and study the conformal mean curvature flow of submanifolds of higher codimension in the Euclidean space $\bbr^n$. This kind of flow is a special case of a general modified mean curvature flow which is of various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Xingxiao Li , Di Zhang

Wang, Weng and Xia[Math. Ann. 388 (2024), no. 2] studied a mean curvature type flow for the smooth, embedded capillary hypersurfaces with a constant contact angle $\theta\in(0,\pi)$ and confirmed the existence of solutions by the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Linlin Fan , Peibiao Zhao

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

In this paper we give sufficient conditions that guarantee the meancurvature flow with free boundary on an embedded rotationally symmetric double cone develops a Type 2 curvature singularity. We additionally prove that Type 0 singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

This article studies the mean curvature flow of Lagrangian submanifolds. In particular, we prove the following global existence and convergence theorem: if the potential function of a Lagrangian graph in T^{2n} is convex, then the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Knut Smoczyk , Mu-Tao Wang

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

Given a smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space ($n\geq2$), we consider strictly mean convex hypersurfaces with boundary which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the cone and which meet the cone perpendicularly. If…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Jing Mao , Qiang Tu

We give an estimate of the mean curvature of a complete submanifold lying inside a closed cylinder $B(r)\times\R^{\ell}$ in a product Riemannian manifold $N^{n-\ell}\times\R^{\ell}$. It follows that a complete hypersurface of given constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-24 L. J. Alias , G. Pacelli Bessa , M. Dajczer

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei-Bo Su , Kai-Wei Zhao

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 study mean curvature flow of smooth, axially symmetric surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary data. We show that all singularities at the first singular time must be of type I.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-09 John Head , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

In this paper, we first study the behavior of inverse mean curvature flow in Schwarzschild manifold. We show that if the initial hypersurface $\Sigma$ is strictly mean convex and star-shaped, then the flow hypersurface $\Sigma_t$ converges…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Haizhong Li , Yong Wei

We describe all possible self-similar motions of immersed hypersurfaces in Euclidean space under the mean curvature flow and derive the corresponding hypersurface equations. Then we present a new two-parameter family of immersed helicoidal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Hoeskuldur P. Halldorsson

Motivated by previous study on mean curvature flow and prescribed mean curvature flow on spatially compact space or asymptotically flat spacetime, in this work we will find sufficient conditions for the short time existence of prescribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Luen-Fai Tam

We study the short-time existence and regularity of solutions to a boundary value problem for the Ricci-DeTurck equation on a manifold with boundary. Using this, we prove the short-time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow prescribing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-14 Panagiotis Gianniotis