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In this paper, we mainly study the mean curvature flow in K\"ahler surfaces with positive holomorphic sectional curvatures. We prove that if the ratio of the maximum and the minimum of the holomorphic sectional curvatures is less than 2,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Jiayu Li , Liuqing Yang

We show the uniqueness of strictly convex closed smooth self-similar solutions to the $\alpha$-Gauss curvature flow with $(1/n) < \alpha < 1+(1/n)$. We introduce a Pogorelov type computation, and then we apply the strong maximum principle.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Kyeongsu Choi , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

In this paper, we consider the area-preserving mean curvature flow with free Neumann boundaries. We show that for a rotationally symmetric $n$-dimensional hypersurface in $\R^{n+1}$ between two parallel hyperplanes will converge to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-12-19 Kunbo Wang

In this article, we will use the harmonic mean curvature flow to prove a new class of Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for strictly convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space in terms of total curvature, which is the integral of Gaussian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Ben Andrews , Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li

In this paper we use a gradient flow to deform closed planar curves to curves with least variation of geodesic curvature in the $L^2$ sense. Given a smooth initial curve we show that the solution to the flow exists for all time and,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Ben Andrews , James McCoy , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this paper, we prove that for x\in(0,{\pi}/2) (cos p_0x)^{1/p_0}<((sin x)/x)<(cos(x/3))^3 with the best constants p_0=0.347307245464... and 1/3. Moreover, if p\in (0,1/3] then the double inequality {\beta}_{p}(cos px)^{1/p}<((sin…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Zhen-Hang Yang

Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional Lagrangian submanifold of a complex space form. We prove a pointwise inequality $$\delta(n_1,\ldots,n_k) \leq a(n,k,n_1,\ldots,n_k) \|H\|^2 + b(n,k,n_1,\ldots,n_k)c,$$ with on the left hand side any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-08 Bang-Yen Chen , Franki Dillen , Joeri Van der Veken , Luc Vrancken

We study a volume preserving curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces, driven by a power of the $k$-th elementary symmetric polynomial in the principal curvatures. Unlike most of the previous works on related problems, we do not require…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

In this paper we introduce a geometric quantity, the $r$-multiplicity, that controls the length of a smooth curve as it evolves by curve shortening flow. The length estimates we obtain are used to prove results about the level set flow in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-02 Joseph Lauer

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

We study the evolution of a Jordan curve on the plane by curvature flow, also known as curve shortening flow, and by level-set flow, which is a weak formulation of curvature flow. We show that the evolution of the curve depends continuously…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Shiyi Ma

In this paper, employing a new inequality, we show that under certain curvature pinching condition, the strictly convex closed smooth self-similar solution of $\sigma_k^{\alpha}$-flow must be a round sphere. We also obtain a similar result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Shanze Gao , Hui Ma

We consider embedded, smooth curves in the plane which are either closed or asymptotic to two lines. We study their behaviour under curve shortening flow with a global forcing term. Firstly, we prove an analogue to Huisken's distance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Friederike Dittberner

In this paper, we study the graphical mean curvature flow in a warped product $_r G/K \times I$, where $G/K$ is a symmetric space of compact type, $I$ is an open interval, and $r$ is a smooth positive function on $I$. If the initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Naotoshi Fujihara , Naoyuki Koike

We study contracting curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces with positive sectional curvature in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$. The speed is assumed to be homogeneous of degree one in the principal curvatures and to satisfy certain…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Tianci Luo , Yong Wei , Rong Zhou

We develop a new boundary condition for the weak inverse mean curvature flow, which gives canonical and non-trivial solutions in bounded domains. Roughly speaking, the boundary of the domain serves as an outer obstacle, and the evolving…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Kai Xu

In this paper we consider the steepest descent $H^{-1}$-gradient flow of the length functional for immersed plane curves, known as the curve diffusion flow. It is known that under this flow there exist both initially immersed curves which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Glen Wheeler