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We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

In this paper, we propose a new assumption (1.2) that involves a small oscillation and $C^2$ norms for maps from smooth bounded domains into Euclidean spaces. Furthermore, by assuming that the domain has non-negative Ricci curvature, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Caiyan Li , Hengyu Zhou

We introduce a novel energy method that reinterprets ``curve shortening'' as ``tangent aligning''. This conceptual shift enables the variational study of infinite-length curves evolving by the curve shortening flow, as well as higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Tatsuya Miura , Fabian Rupp

We show short-time existence for curves driven by curve diffusion flow with a prescribed contact angle $\alpha \in (0, \pi)$: The evolving curve has free boundary points, which are supported on a line and it satisfies a no-flux condition.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Helmut Abels , Julia Butz

We establish existence and uniqueness results for the modified binormal curvature flow equation that generalizes the binormal curvature flow equation for a curve in $\R^3.$ In this generalization, the velocity of the curve is still directed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Haidar Mohamad

In this paper we study the curvature flow of a curve in a plane endowed with a minkowskian norm whose unit ball is smooth. We show that many of the properties known in the euclidean case can be extended (with due adaptations) to this new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Vitor Balestro , Marcos Craizer , Ralph C. Teixeira

In this proceedings article we shall survey a series of results on the stability of self-similar solutions of the vortex filament equation. This equation is a geometric flow for curves in $\mathbb R^3$ and it is used as a model for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-22 Valeria Banica

We study the Dirichlet problem for minimal surface systems in arbitrary dimension and codimension via mean curvature flow, and obtain the existence of minimal graphs over arbitrary mean convex bounded $C^2$ domains for a large class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding , J. Jost , Y. L. Xin

In this paper, we first consider the curve case of Hu-Li-Wei's flow for shifted principal curvatures of h-convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ proposed in [10]. We prove that if the initial closed curve is smooth and strictly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Chaoqun Gao , Rong Zhou

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

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 propose a notion of discrete elastic and area-constrained elastic curves in 2-dimensional space forms. Our definition extends the well-known discrete Euclidean curvature equation to space forms and reflects various geometric properties…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Tim Hoffmann , Jannik Steinmeier , Gudrun Szewieczek

Motivated by Pan-Yang [PY] and Ma-Cheng [MC], we study a general linear nonlocal curvature flow for convex closed plane curves and discuss the short time existence and asymptotic convergence behavior of the flow. Due to the linear structure…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-02 Yu-Chu Lin , Dong-Ho Tsai

By making use of the approximation method, we obtain the existence and regularity of the viscosity solutions for the generalized mean curvature flow. The asymptotic behavior of the flow is also considered. In particular, the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-24 RongLi Huang , JiGuang Bao

We study expansions near the boundary of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for the constant mean curvature equation in the hyperbolic space. With a characterization of remainders of the expansion by multiple integrals, we establish optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Qing Han , Yue Wang

We construct weak solutions for the evolution of hypersurfaces along their inverse space-time mean curvature in asymptotically flat maximal initial data sets. As the speed of the new flow is given by a space-time invariant, it can detect…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-12 Gerhard Huisken , Markus Wolff

Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Robert Haslhofer

We consider curve shortening flow of arbitrary codimension in an Euclidean background. We show that, close to a singularity, the flow is asymptotically planar, paralleling Altschuler's work in the case of space curves, and analyse the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Florian Litzinger

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

A general purely crystalline mean curvature flow equation with a nonuniform driving force term is considered. The unique existence of a level set flow is established when the driving force term is continuous and spatially Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Pozar