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In this paper we study a normalised anisotropic Gauss curvature flow of strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space R^n+1. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to the unique, strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Li Chen , Qiang Tu , Di Wu , Ni Xiang

In this paper we prove convergence and compactness results for Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature and entropy. More specifically, we show that Ricci flows with bounded scalar curvature converge smoothly away from a singular set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Richard H. Bamler

We prove a suite of asymptotically sharp quadratic curvature pinching estimates for mean curvature flow in the sphere which generalize Simons' rigidity theorem for minimal hypersurfaces. We then obtain derivative estimates for the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

In this paper a generalized Gauss curvature flow about a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean $n$-space is studied. This flow is closely related to the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which involves Gauss curvature and a function of support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 YanNan Liu , Jian Lu

In this paper we study a contracting flow of closed, convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ with speed $f r^{\alpha} K$, where $K$ is the Gauss curvature, $r$ is the distance from the hypersurface to the origin, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Qi-Rui Li , Weimin Sheng , Xu-Jia Wang

We find a new monotone increasing quantity along smooth solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in $\mathbb R^n$. As an application, we derive a sharp geometric inequality for mean convex, star-shaped hypersurfaces which relates the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Pengzi Miao

We prove uniform curvature estimates for homogeneous Ricci flows: For a solution defined on $[0,t]$ the norm of the curvature tensor at time $t$ is bounded by the maximum of $C(n)/t$ and $C(n) ( scal(g(t)) - scal(g(0)) )$. This is used to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Christoph Böhm , Ramiro Lafuente , Miles Simon

For a general $k$-dimensional Brakke flow in $\mathbb{R}^n$ locally close to a $k$-dimensional plane in the sense of measure, it is proved that the flow is represented locally as a smooth graph over the plane with estimates on all the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Salvatore Stuvard , Yoshihiro Tonegawa

We consider the evolution of a $n$-dimensional convex hypersurface in the euclidean space under mean curvature flow with densities $e^{\varepsilon \frac12 n\mu^2 |x|^2}$, $\varepsilon =\pm 1$, and completely determine it depending on the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-12-23 Alexander A. Borisenko , Vicente Miquel

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

We prove stability of rotationally symmetric translating solutions to mean curvature flow. For initial data that converge spatially at infinity to such a soliton, we obtain convergence for large times to that soliton without imposing any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julie Clutterbuck , Oliver C. Schnürer , Felix Schulze

We consider a flow by powers of Gauss curvature under the obstruction that the flow cannot penetrate a prescribed region, so called an obstacle. For all dimensions and positive powers, we prove the optimal curvature bounds of solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Ki-Ahm Lee , Taehun Lee

We consider flows with normal velocities equal to powers strictly larger than one of the Gauss curvature. Under such flows closed strictly convex surfaces converge to points. In his work on the square of the norm of the second fundamental…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-19 Martin Franzen

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

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

We study a variant of the mean curvature flow for closed, convex hypersurfaces where the normal velocity is a nonhomogeneous function of the principal curvatures. We show that if the initial hypersurface satisfies a certain pinching…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Tim Espin

We will consider a {\it $\tau$-flow}, given by the equation $\frac{d}{dt}g_{ij} = -2R_{ij} + \frac{1}{\tau}g_{ij}$ on a closed manifold $M$, for all times $t\in [0,\infty)$. We will prove that if the curvature operator and the diameter of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Natasa Sesum

Using the convex functions in Grassmannian manifolds we can carry out interior estimates for mean curvature flow of higher codimension. In this way some of the results of Ecker-Huisken can be generalized to higher codimension

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-07-10 Y. L. Xin , Ling Yang

We prove regularity, global existence, and convergence of Lagrangian mean curvature flows in the two-convex case. Such results were previously only known in the convex case, of which the current work represents a significant improvement.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

By means of dual convex bodies, we obtain regularity of solutions to the expanding Gauss curvature flows with homogeneity degrees $-p$, $0<p<1$. At the end, we remark that our method can also be used to obtain regularity of solutions to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Mohammad N. Ivaki