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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

We establish a sharp rate of convergence for a free-boundary curve shortening flow in a convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ which converges in finite time to a round half-point.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Theodora Bourni , Nathan Burns , Mat Langford

We consider the parabolic polyharmonic diffusion and $L^2$-gradient flows of the $m$-th arclength derivative of curvature for regular closed curves evolving with generalised Neumann boundary conditions. In the polyharmonic case, we prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-20 James McCoy , Glen Wheeler , Yuhan Wu

The motion by curvature of networks is the generalization to finite union of curves of the curve shortening flow. This evolution has several peculiar features, mainly due to the presence of junctions where the curves meet. In this paper we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga , Alessandra Pluda

A new isoperimetric estimate is proved for embedded closed curves evolving by curve shortening flow, normalized to have total length $2\pi$. The estimate bounds the length of any chord from below in terms of the arc length between its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-20 Ben Andrews , Paul Bryan

Geometric evolution represents a fundamental aspect of many physical phenomena. In this paper we consider the geometric evolution of structures that undergo topological changes. Topological changes occur when the shape of an object evolves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-11 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

We solve a variant of Huisken's problem for open curves: we construct migrating elastic flows under the natural boundary conditions, extending previous work from the nonlocal flow to the purely local flow.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Tatsuya Miura

Recently Andrews and Bryan [3] discovered a comparison function which allows them to shorten the classical proof of the well-known fact that the curve shortening flow shrinks embedded closed curves in the plane to a round point. Using this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Heiko Kröner

We consider regular open curves in R^n with fixed boundary points and moving according to the L^{2}-gradient flow for a generalisation of the Helfrich functional. Natural boundary conditions are imposed along the evolution. More precisely,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Anna Dall'Acqua , Paola Pozzi

If a smooth, closed, and embedded curve is deformed along its normal vector field at a rate proportional to its curvature, it shrinks to a circular point. This curve evolution is called Euclidean curve shortening and the result is known as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stephen L. Smith , Mireille E. Broucke , Bruce A. Francis

We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces with the boundary which meets a strictly convex cone perpendicularly. We prove that if these hypersurfaces expand inside this cone, driven by the power of the Gauss curvature, then the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Li Chen , Ni Xiang

In this paper, we study surfaces which evolve by anisotropic mean curvature flow with contact angle boundary condition over a strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish a prior gradient estimate for smooth solutions to this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Can Cui , Nung Kwan Yip

Extending the earlier results for analytic curve segments, in this article we describe the asymptotic behaviour of evolution of a finite segment of a C^n-smooth curve under the geodesic flow on the unit tangent bundle of a finite volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Nimish A. Shah

Mean curvature flow evolves isometrically immersed base manifolds $M$ in the direction of their mean curvatures in an ambient manifold $\bar{M}$. If the base manifold $M$ is compact, the short time existence and uniqueness of the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Bing-Long Chen , Le Yin

A priori estimates for the mean curvature evolution of Killing graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds with asymptotic Dirichlet conditions are established. As an application, the existence of the corresponding parabolic flow is proved,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Claudia Fernandes , Jorge de Lira , Matheus Soares

The mean curvature flow is an evolution process under which a submanifold deforms in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The hypersurface case has been much studied since the eighties. Recently, several theorems on regularity,…

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

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in geometric evolution in heterogeneous media. Here we consider curvature driven fows of planar curves, with an additional space-dependent forcing term. Motivated by a homogenization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-29 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga , Enrico Valdinoci

We show that for almost all points on any analytic curve on R^{k} which is not contained in a proper affine subspace, the Dirichlet's theorem on simultaneous approximation, as well as its dual result for simultaneous approximation of linear…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Nimish A. Shah

We consider the Euler equations in ${\mathbb R}^3$ expressed in vorticity form. A classical question that goes back to Helmholtz is to describe the evolution of solutions with a high concentration around a curve. The work of Da Rios in 1906…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Juan Dávila , Manuel del Pino , Monica Musso , Juncheng Wei

We investigate the boundary behavior of variational solutions of Dirichlet problems for prescribed mean curvature equations at smooth boundary points where certain boundary curvature conditions are satisfied (which preclude the existence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Mozhgan , Entekhabi , Kirk E. Lancaster
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