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In this paper, we introduce a volume- or area-preserving curvature flow for hypersurfaces with capillary boundary in the half-space, with speed given by a positive power of the mean curvature with a non-local averaging term. We demonstrate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Carlo Sinestrari , Liangjun Weng

We prove that strictly convex surfaces moving by $K^{\alpha/2}$ become spherical as they contract to points, provided $\alpha$ lies in the range $[1,2]$. In the process we provide a natural candidate for a curvature pinching quantity for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Ben Andrews , Xuzhong Chen

We investigate the mean curvature flows in a class of warped product manifolds with closed hypersurfaces fibering over $\mathbb{R}$. In particular, we prove that under natural conditions on the warping function and Ricci curvature bound for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Zheng Huang , Zhou Zhang , Hengyu Zhou

We give a new proof for the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery of 2-convex hypersurfaces in $R^N$, as announced in arXiv:1304.0926. Our proof works for all $N \geq 3$, including mean convex surfaces in $R^3$. We also derive a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

Recently a new no-global-recollapse argument was given for some inhomogeneous and anisotropic cosmologies that utilizes surface deformation by the mean curvature flow. In this paper we discuss important properties of the mean curvature flow…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-17 Ali Kaya

We study rotational surfaces in Euclidean 3-space whose Gauss curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. By means of a phase plane analysis and under mild assumptions on the prescribed function, we generalize the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Antonio Bueno , Irene Ortiz

The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

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

The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-18 Hangjun Xu

We consider skew ruled surfaces in the three-dimensional Euclidean space and some geometrically distinguished families of curves on them whose normal curvature has a concrete form. The aim of this paper is to find and classify all ruled…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Stylianos Stamatakis

In this paper, we consider prescribed shifted Gauss curvature equations for horo-convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. Under some sufficient condition, we obtain an existence result by the standard degree theory based on the a prior…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Li Chen , Kang Xiao , Qiang Tu

We study the evolution of compact convex curves in two-dimensional space forms. The normal speed is given by the difference of the weighted inverse curvature with the support function, and in the case where the ambient space is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Yong Wei , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We prove that any strongly regular Weingarten surface in Euclidean space carries locally geometric principal parameters. The basic theorem states that any strongly regular Weingarten surface is determined up to a motion by its structural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-17 Georgi Ganchev , Vesselka Mihova

A classical theorem of A.D. Alexandrov says that a connected compact smooth hypersurface in Euclidean space with constant mean curvature must be a sphere. We give exposition to some results on symmetry properties of hypersurfaces with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-11 YanYan Li

Inspired by the concept of evolutoids of planar curves, we present the concept of evolutoids for regular surfaces as an envelope of a two-parameter family of lines in Euclidean 3-space. We give an explicit parametrization for such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Ady Cambraia Junior , Abilio Lemos , Mostafa Salarinoghabi

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

Foliations by constant mean curvature hypersurfaces provide a possibility of defining a preferred time coordinate in general relativity. In the following various conjectures are made about the existence of foliations of this kind in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Alan D. Rendall

In this paper, we consider the inverse hessian quotient curvature flow with star-shaped initial hypersurface in anti-de Sitter-Schwarzschild manifold. We prove that the solution exists for all time, and the second fundamental form converges…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Siyuan Lu

We study inverse mean curvature flows of starshaped, mean convex hypersurfaces in warped product manifolds with a positive warping factor $\varphi(r)$. If $\varphi'(r)>0$ and $\varphi''(r)\geq 0$, we show that these flows exist for all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Hengyu Zhou

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow --- the hyperbolic gradient flow for graphs in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. This kind of flow is new and very natural to understand the geometry of manifolds. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu