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In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We study fully nonlinear geometric flows that deform strictly $k$-convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with pointwise normal speed given by a concave function of the principal curvatures. Specifically, the speeds we consider are obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Stephen Lynch

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

In this article, we extend Huisken's theorem that convex surfaces flow to round points by mean curvature flow. We construct certain classes of mean convex and non-mean convex hypersurfaces that shrink to round points and use these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Alexander Mramor , Alec Payne

A variant of the Gauss curvature flow for closed and convex hypersurfaces is considered. We reveal that if the initial hypersurface is pinched enough, then this property is preserved. Furthermore, based on some structure assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Jinrong Hu , Ping Zhang

We study the mean curvature flow in 3-dimensional null hypersurfaces. In a spacetime a hypersurface is called null, if its induced metric is degenerate. The speed of the mean curvature flow of spacelike surfaces in a null hypersurface is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Henri Roesch , Julian Scheuer

We first give a general introduction to the mean curvature flow, and then discuss fundamental results established over the last 10 years that yield a precise theory for the flow through singularities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. With the aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Robert Haslhofer

We give an overview of the existence and regularity results for curvature flows and how these flows can be used to solve some problems in geometry and physics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Claus Gerhardt

We consider the flow of closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed given by a power of the $k$-th mean curvature $E_k$ plus a global term chosen to impose a constraint involving the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Ben Andrews , Yong Wei

We consider the evolution by mean curvature of smooth $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ which are compact and quadratically pinched. We will be primarily interested in flows of high codimension, the case $k\geq 2$. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

Mean curvature flow of clusters of n-dimensional surfaces in R^{n+k} that meet in triples at equal angles along smooth edges and higher order junctions on lower dimensional faces is a natural extension of classical mean curvature flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Felix Schulze , Brian White

We study the mean curvature flow of complete space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space with bounded Gauss image, as well as that of complete submanifolds in Euclidean space with convex Gauss image. By using the confinable property…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. L. Xin

We provide explicit examples which show that mean convexity (i.e. positivity of the mean curvature) and positivity of the scalar curvature are non-preserved curvature conditions for hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space evolving under either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to establish sufficient conditions under which the mean curvature flow supported on a hypersphere with exterior Dirichlet boundary exists globally in time and converges to a minimal surface,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this paper, we prove the mean-convex neighborhood conjecture for neck singularities of the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for all $n\geq 3$: we show that if a mean curvature flow $\{M_t\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ has an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits , Brian White

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

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 study global aspects of the mean curvature flow of non-separating hypersurfaces $S$ in closed manifolds. For instance, if $S$ has non-vanishing mean curvature, we show its level set flow converges smoothly towards an embedded minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Marco A. M. Guaraco , Vanderson Lima , Franco Vargas Pallete

A family of hypersurfaces evolves by mean curvature flow if the velocity at each point is given by the mean curvature vector. Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and has been extensively studied…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Robert Haslhofer

A possible evolution of a compact hypersurface in R^n by mean curvature past singularities is defined via the level set flow. In the case that the initial hypersurface has positive mean curvature, we show that the Brakke flow associated to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Metzger , Felix Schulze