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In this paper, we prove the short-time existence of hyperbolic inverse (mean) curvature flow (with or without the specified forcing term) under the assumption that the initial compact smooth hypersurface of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Zhe Zhou , Chuan-Xi Wu , Jing Mao

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

In this paper, we study the $k$-Hessian curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We first prove the existence of translating solutions with given asymptotic behavior. Then, we prove that for strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Qu Changzheng , Wang Zhizhang , Wo Weifeng

In this paper we investigate the one-dimensional hyperbolic mean curvature flow for closed plane curves. We show that there exists a class of initial velocities such that the solution of the corresponding initial value problem exists only…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-05 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , Zeng-Gui Wang

In this work, we propose a new evolving geometric flow (called translating mean curvature flow) for the translating solitons of hypersurfaces in $R^{n+1}$. We study the basic properties, such as positivity preserving property, of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Li Ma

In this paper we study the non-existence of solutions to the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs of codimension $\geq 2$, including certain situations over domain $\Omega$ even with non-$C^1$ boundary $\partial \Omega$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Yongsheng Zhang

In this paper, we show the existence of smoothly embedded closed minimal surfaces in infinite volume hyperbolic $3$-manifolds except some special cases.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Baris Coskunuzer

In this work, we discuss the stability of Donaldson's flow of surfaces in a hyperk\"ahler 4-manifold. In \cite{WT2}, Wang and Tsai proved a uniqueness theorem and $C^1$ dynamic stability theorem of the mean curvature flow for minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Kuan-Hui Lee

Let $M$ be a K\"ahler-Einstein surface with positive scalar curvature. If the initial surface is sufficiently close to a holomorphic curve, we show that the mean curvature flow has a global solution and it converges to a holomorphic curve.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Xiaoli Han , Jiayu Li

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao

This paper proves that, at the first singular time for a smoothly immersed surface moving by mean curvature flow in a n-manifold, each tangent flow is given by a smooth, branched shrinker, possibly with multiplicity. If n=3 and if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

We introduce a description of a minimal surface in a space with boundary, as the world-hypersurface that the entangling surface traces. It does so by evolving from the boundary to the interior of the bulk under an appropriate geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Dimitrios Katsinis , Ioannis Mitsoulas , Georgios Pastras

We prove a short time existence result for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss a mean curvature flow scaled with a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke

A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We study the constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space whose asymptotic boundaries are closed codimension-1 submanifolds in sphere at infinity. We consider CMC hypersurfaces as generalizations of minimal hypersurfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer

We consider initial-boundary problems for general linear first-order strictly hyperbolic systems with local or nonlocal nonlinear boundary conditions. While boundary data are supposed to be smooth, initial conditions can contain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Irina Kmit

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 investigate the minimal surface problem in the three dimensional Heisenberg group, H, equipped with its standard Carnot-Caratheodory metric. Using a particular surface measure, we characterize minimal surfaces in terms of a sub-elliptic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Scott D. Pauls

A model describing cell membranes as optimal shapes with regard to the $L^2$-deficit of their mean curvature to a given constant called spontaneous curvature is considered. It is shown that the corresponding energy functional is lower…

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