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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

In this note we announce results on the mean curvature flow of mean convex sets in 3-dimensions. Loosely speaking, our results justify the naive picture of mean curvature flow where the only singularities are neck pinches, and components…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Bruce Kleiner

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

In this paper, we study the existence, uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of rotationally symmetric translating solitons of the mean curvature flow in Minkowski space. We also study the asymptotic behavior and the strict convexity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Huaiyu Jian

For $n\geq 2$, we construct $I$-dimensional family of embedded ancient solutions to mean curvature flow arise from an unstable minimal hypersurface $\Sigma$ with finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, where $I$ is the Morse index of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yongheng Han

We investigate the integral conditions to extend the mean curvature flow in a Riemannian manifold. We prove that the mean curvature flow solution with finite total mean curvature on a finite time interval $[0,T)$ can be extended over time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Hong-Wei Xu , Fei Ye , En-Tao Zhao

In this article, we introduce a new type of mean curvature flow for bounded star-shaped domains in space forms and prove its longtime existence, exponential convergence without any curvature assumption. Along this flow, the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Pengfei Guan , Junfang Li

In this paper we prove uniform regularity estimates for the normalized Gauss curvature flow in higher dimensions. The convergence of solutions in $C^\infty$-topology to a smooth strictly convex soliton as $t$ approaches to infinity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Pengfei Guan , Lei Ni

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

We study the phenomenon of Type-II curvature blow-up in mean curvature flows of rotationally symmetric noncompact embedded hypersurfaces. Using analytic techniques based on formal matched asymptotics and the construction of upper and lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-09 James Isenberg , Haotian Wu

We study the evolution of star-shaped sets in volume preserving mean curvature flow. Constructed by approximate minimizing movements, our solutions preserve a strong version of star-shapedness. We also show that the solutions converges to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Inwon Kim , Dohyun Kwon

In this paper, a generalization of the $L_{p}$-Christoffel-Minkowski problem is studied. We consider an anisotropic curvature flow and derive the long-time existence of the flow. Then under some initial data, we obtain the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Boya Li , Hongjie Ju , Yannan Liu

We study the obstacle problem associated to mean curvature flow. We add to the geometric vanishing-viscosity approximation of Evans and Spruck a singular perturbation that penalizes the violation of the constraint, and pass to the limit.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Tim Laux , Keisuke Takasao

The paper examines one-dimensional total variation flow equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Thanks to a new concept of "almost classical" solutions we are able to determine evolution of facets -- flat regions of solutions. A key…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Karolina Kielak , Piotr Bogusław Mucha , Piotr Rybka

This paper completes and partially improves some of the results of [arXiv:0809.5002] about the asymptotic behavior of solutions of linear and nonlinear elliptic equations with singular coefficients via an Almgren type monotonicity formula

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-22 Veronica Felli , Alberto Ferrero , Susanna Terracini

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

In this paper, we establish Li-Yau-type and Hamilton-type estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation associated with the generalized Ricci flow, under a less stringent curvature condition. Compared with [25] and [35], these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Juanling Lu , Yu Zheng

We show how to use the arguments of [CM2] to get a stronger effective version of uniqueness of blowups that has a number of consequences.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We develop a theory of surfaces with boundary moving by mean curvature flow. In particular, we prove a general existence theorem by elliptic regularization, and we prove boundary regularity at all positive times under very mild hypotheses.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

We provide the first general result for the asymptotics of the area preserving mean curvature flow in two dimensions showing that flat flow solutions, starting from any bounded set of finite perimeter, converge with exponential rate to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Vesa Julin , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione , Emanuele Spadaro