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We prove that convex hypersurfaces in ${\mathbb R}^{n+1}$ contracting under the flow by any power $\alpha>\frac{1}{n+2}$ of the Gauss curvature converge (after rescaling to fixed volume) to a limit which is a smooth, uniformly convex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Ben Andrews , Pengfei Guan , Lei Ni

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

We study a volume/area preserving curvature flow of hypersurfaces that are convex by horospheres in the hyperbolic space, with velocity given by a generic positive, increasing function of the mean curvature, not necessarly homogeneous. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Maria Chiara Bertini , Giuseppe Pipoli

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 use the inverse mean curvature flow with a free boundary perpendicular to the sphere to prove a geometric inequality involving the Willmore energy for convex hypersurfaces of dimension $n\geq 3$ with boundary on the sphere.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-27 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

In 1966, P. Guenther proved the following result: Given a continuous function f on a compact surface M of constant curvature -1 and its periodic lift g to the universal covering, the hyperbolic plane, then the averages of the lift g over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-15 Femke Douma

By studying the monotonicity of the first nonzero eigenvalues of Laplace and p-Laplace operators on a closed convex hypersurface $M^n$ which evolves under inverse mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, the isoperimetric lower bounds for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Fangcheng Guo , Guanghan Li , Chuanxi Wu

We prove a rigidity result in the sphere which allows us to generalize a result about smooth convex hypersurfaces in the sphere by Do Carmo-Warner to convex $C^2$-hypersurfaces. We apply these results to prove $C^{1,\beta}$-convergence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-23 Matthias Makowski , Julian Scheuer

A monotonicity property of Harnack inequality is proved for positive invariant harmonic functions in the unit ball.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yifei Pan , Mei Wang

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 study closed, embedded hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by fully nonlinear curvature flows, whose speed is given by a symmetric, monotone increasing, $1$-homogeneous, positive underlying speed function $F$ composed with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Weimin Sheng , Ye Zhu

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

In this paper, we prove that convex hypersurfaces under the flow by powers $\alpha>0$ of the Gauss curvature in space forms $\mathbb{N}^{n+1}(\kappa)$ of constant sectional curvature $\kappa$ $(\kappa=\pm 1)$ contract to a point in finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Min Chen , Jiuzhou Huang

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

Let f be a smooth map between unit spheres of possibly different dimensions. We prove the global existence and convergence of the mean curvature flow of the graph of f under various conditions. A corollary is that any area-decreasing map…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-19 Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

In 1995, Hamilton introduced a Harnack inequality for convex solutions of the mean curvature flow. In this paper we prove an alternative Harnack inequality for curve shortening flow, i.e. one-dimensional mean curvature flow, that does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Arjun Sobnack , Peter M. Topping

We find a new monotone increasing quantity along smooth solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in $\mathbb R^n$. As an application, we derive a sharp geometric inequality for mean convex, star-shaped hypersurfaces which relates the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Pengzi Miao

We prove some generalizations and analogies of Harnack inequalities for pluriharmonic, holomorphic and "almost holomorphic" functions. The results are applied to the proving of smoothness properties of holomorphic motions over almost…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2012-04-04 E. M. Chirka

In this paper, we consider the evolution of spacelike graphic hypersurfaces defined over a convex piece of hyperbolic plane $\mathscr{H}^{n}(1)$, of center at origin and radius $1$, in the $(n+1)$-dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Ya Gao , Jing Mao

In this paper we investigate the flow of surfaces by a class of symmetric functions of the principal curvatures with a mixed volume constraint. We consider compact surfaces without boundary that can be written as a graph over a sphere. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 David Hartley