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We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Luís Almeida , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

We investigate the properties of the combinatorial Ricci flow for surfaces, both forward and backward -- existence, uniqueness and singularities formation. We show that the positive results that exist for the smooth Ricci flow also hold for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-06-09 Emil Saucan

Here we provide a uniqueness result for viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow. In this setting the uniqueness cannot be deduced via comparison principle, which is known only for graphs and for radially symmetric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Emre Baspinar , Giovanna Citti

As a step toward understanding the analytic behavior of Type-III Ricci flow singularities, i.e. immortal solutions that exhibit |Rm|<C/t curvature decay, we examine the linearization of an equivalent flow at fixed points discovered recently…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Christine Guenther , James Isenberg , Dan Knopf

In this paper, we systemally study the long time behavior of the curve shortening flow in a closed or non-compact complete locally Riemannian symmetric manifold. Assume that we have a global flow. Then we can exhibit a a limit for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Li Ma , Dezhong Chen

In this paper we study the local regularity of closed surfaces immersed in a Riemannian 3-manifold flowing by Willmore flow. We establish a pair of concentration-compactness alternatives for the flow, giving a lower bound on the maximal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Jan Metzger , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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

The group-theoretic approach is used to construct exact solutions to perfect fluid equations invariant under the Schrodinger group, or the l-conformal Galilei group, or the Lifshitz group. In each respective case, the velocity vector field…

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Continuous normalizing flows are known to be highly expressive and flexible, which allows for easier incorporation of large symmetries and makes them a powerful computational tool for lattice field theories. Building on previous work, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-22 Mathis Gerdes , Pim de Haan , Roberto Bondesan , Miranda C. N. Cheng

In a recent article, a localization of the Huisken--Stampacchia iteration method was developed, and used to establish localizations of the well-known "umbilic", "convexity" and "cylindrical" estimates for hypersurfaces evolving in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mat Langford , James McCoy

This paper is devoted to obtain the one-dimensional group invariant solutions of the two-dimensional Ricci flow ((2D) Rf) equation. By classifying the orbits of the adjoint representation of the symmetry group on its Lie algebra, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-08-04 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Mehdi Jafari

We establish a structure result for the isometry group of non-compact, homogeneous manifolds admitting an immortal homogeneous Ricci flow solution.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Roberto Araujo

We prove the existence of closed convex ancient solutions to curvature flows which become more and more oval for large negative times. The speed function is a general symmetric function of the principal curvatures, homogeneous of degree…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Susanna Risa , Carlo Sinestrari

In this paper we consider the local $L^p$ estimate of Riemannian curvature for the Ricci-harmonic flow or List's flow introduced by List \cite{List2005} on complete noncompact manifolds. As an application, under the assumption that the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Yi Li , Miaosen Zhang

Community detection is an important problem in graph neural networks. Recently, algorithms based on Ricci curvature flows have gained significant attention. It was suggested by Ollivier (2009), and applied to community detection by Ni et al…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Jicheng Ma , Yunyan Yang

In this paper, we prove a pseudolocality-type theorem for $\mathcal L$-complete noncompact Ricci flow which may not have bounded sectional curvature; with the help of it we study the uniqueness of the Ricci flow on noncompact manifolds. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

We study the Laplacian flow of a $\mathrm{G}_2$-structure where this latter structure is claimed to be Locally Conformal Parallel. The first examples of long time solutions of this flow with the Locally Conformal Parallel condition are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Victor Manero , Antonio Otal , Raquel Villacampa

We introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

We describe a variational framework for non-commuting flows, extending the theories of Lagrangian multiforms and pluri-Lagrangian systems, which have gained prominence in recent years as a variational description of integrable systems in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-04-25 Vincent Caudrelier , Frank Nijhoff , Duncan Sleigh , Mats Vermeeren

Given a family of smooth immersions $F_t: M^n\to N^{n+1}$ of closed hypersurfaces in a locally symmetric Riemannian manifold $N^{n+1}$ with bounded geometry, moving by the mean curvature flow, we show that at the first finite singular time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jia-Yong Wu