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In this paper we consider the prescribed mean curvature flow of a non-compact space-like Cauchy hypersurface of bounded geometry in a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time. We prove that the flow preserves the space-likeness condition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Gentile , Boris Vertman

In the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,k}$, we consider the mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifolds with spacelike codimension one and arbitrary timelike codimension $k$. We show that if the initial submanifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ben Andrews , Qiyu Zhou

We consider embedded hypersurfaces evolving by fully nonlinear flows in which the normal speed of motion is a homogeneous degree one, concave or convex function of the principal curvatures, and prove a non-collapsing estimate: Precisely,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-09-13 Ben Andrews , Mat Langford , James McCoy

In this paper, a class of fully nonlinear flows with nonlinear Neumann type boundary condition is considered. This problem was solved partly by the first author under the assumption that the flow is the parabolic type special Lagrangian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 R. L. Huang , Y. H. Ye

In this paper, we study a class of flows of closed, star-shaped hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ with speed $(\sinh r)^{{\alpha}/{\beta}} \sigma_{k}^{{1}/{\beta}}$, where $\sigma_{k}$ is the $k$-th elementary symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Fang Hong

We obtain Harnack estimates for a class of curvature flows in Riemannian manifolds of constant non-negative sectional curvature as well as in the Lorentzian Minkowski and de Sitter spaces. Furthermore, we prove a Harnack estimate with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

It was recently proved that embedded solutions of Euclidean hypersurface flows with speeds given by concave (convex), degree one homogeneous functions of the Weingarten map are interior (exterior) non-collapsing. These results were…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Ben Andrews , Mat Langford

Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos

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

In this paper, we can prove the existence of translating solutions to the nonparametric mean curvature flow with nonzero Neumann boundary data in a prescribed product manifold $M^{n}\times\mathbb{R}$, where $M^{n}$ is an $n$-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Ya Gao , Yi-Juan Gong , Jing Mao

We define a notion of mean curvature flow with surgery for two-dimensional surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with positive mean curvature. Our construction relies on the earlier work of Huisken and Sinestrari in the higher dimensional case. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 S. Brendle , G. Huisken

In this paper, for the Lorentz manifold $M^{2}\times\mathbb{R}$, with $M^{2}$ a $2$-dimensional complete surface with nonnegative Gaussian curvature, we investigate its space-like graphs over compact strictly convex domains in $M^{2}$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-22 Li Chen , Dan-Dan Hu , Jing Mao , Ni Xiang

We give a new proof for the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery of 2-convex hypersurfaces in $R^N$, as announced in arXiv:1304.0926. Our proof works for all $N \geq 3$, including mean convex surfaces in $R^3$. We also derive a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

Motivated by questions in detecting minimal surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds, we study the behavior of geometric flows in complete hyperbolic three-manifolds. In most cases the flows develop singularities in finite time. In this paper, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Zheng Huang , Longzhi Lin , Zhou Zhang

In this paper, we study a class of non-homogeneous anisotropic fully nonlinear curvature flows in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$. More precisely, we consider a hypersurface $M$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ deformed by a flow along its unit normal with its…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Weimin Sheng , Jiazhuo Yang

In this paper, we first investigate the integral curvature condition to extend the mean curvature flow of submanifolds in a Riemannian manifold with codimension $d\geq1$, which generalizes the extension theorem for the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-07 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

It is known that principal orbits of Hermann actions on a symmetric space of non-compact type are curvature-adapted isoparametric submanifolds having no focal point of non-Euclidean type on the ideal boundary of the ambient symmetric space.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Naoyuki Koike

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normal velocity given by a positive power of the mean curvature. The hypersurfaces under consideration are assumed to be strictly mean convex (positive mean curvature),…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wolfgang Maurer

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