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We establish existence and uniqueness results for the modified binormal curvature flow equation that generalizes the binormal curvature flow equation for a curve in $\R^3.$ In this generalization, the velocity of the curve is still directed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Haidar Mohamad

We consider closed immersed hypersurfaces evolving by surface diffusion flow, and perform an analysis based on local and global integral estimates. First we show that a properly immersed stationary (\Delta H \equiv 0) hypersurface in \R^3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Glen Wheeler

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

We prove that the total curvature of a planar graph with nonnegative combinatorial curvature is at least $\frac{1}{12}$ if it is positive. Moreover, we classify the metric structures of ambient polygonal surfaces for planar graphs attaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bobo Hua , Yanhui Su

We show that any open set that is a finite distance away from a Lipschitz subgraph will become a Lipschitz subgraph after flowing under fractional mean curvature flow for a finite, universal time. Our proof is quantitative and inherently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Stephen Cameron

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface $\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We introduce a definition of finite-time curvature evolution along with our recent study on shape coherence in nonautonomous dynamical systems. Comparing to slow evolving curvature preserving the shape, large curvature growth points reveal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Tian Ma , Erik Bollt

Earlier work of the first author examined two boundary value problems associated to the Gauss Curvature Flow on a surface of revolution generated by a positive, differentiable function on a compact interval. In this continuation, two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Thalia D. Jeffres , Leonardo Solanilla

We study $2$-dimensional unit vector flows on graphs, that is, nowhere-zero flows that assign to each oriented edge a unit vector in $\mathbb R^{3}$. We give a new geometric characterization of $\mathbb S^{2}$-flows on cubic graphs. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Hussein Houdrouge , Bobby Miraftab , Pat Morin

In this paper we consider the evolution of sets by a fractional mean curvature flow. Our main result states that for any dimension $n > 2$, there exists an embedded surface in $\mathbb R^n$ evolving by fractional mean curvature flow, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Eleonora Cinti , Carlo Sinestrari , Enrico Valdinoci

We consider a flow by powers of Gauss curvature under the obstruction that the flow cannot penetrate a prescribed region, so called an obstacle. For all dimensions and positive powers, we prove the optimal curvature bounds of solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Ki-Ahm Lee , Taehun Lee

Given a compact four dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ with smooth boundary, we consider the evolution equation by $Q$-curvature in the interior keeping the $T$-curvature and the mean curvature to be zero and the evolution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-08-16 Cheikh Birahim Ndiaye

In this second part of a sequence of two papers, we discuss the implementation of a curvature flow on weighted graphs based on the Bakry-\'Emery calculus. This flow can be adapted to preserve the Markovian property and its limits as time…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-12-26 David Cushing , Supanat Kamtue , Shiping Liu , Florentin Münch , Norbert Peyerimhoff , Ben Snodgrass

This paper gives a framework to study a continuum limit of a gradient flow on a graph where the number of vertices increases in an appropriate way. As examples we prove the convergence of a discrete total variation flow and a discrete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Yoshikazu Giga , Yves van Gennip , Jun Okamoto

This paper gives some examples of hypersurfaces $\phi_t(M^n)$ evolving in time with speed determined by functions of the normal curvatures in an $(n+1)$-dimensional hyperbolic manifold; we emphasize the case of flow by harmonic mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-25 Robert Gulliver , Guoyi Xu

We prove the mean curvature flow of a spacelike graph in $(\Sigma_1\times \Sigma_2, g_1-g_2)$ of a map $f:\Sigma_1\to \Sigma_2$ from a closed Riemannian manifold $(\Sigma_1,g_1)$ with $Ricci_1> 0$ to a complete Riemannian manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-12 Guanghan Li , Isabel M. C. Salavessa

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow in smooth Riemannian manifolds of the form $([R_{0},\infty)\times S^n,\bar{g})$ with metric $\bar{g}=dr^2+{\vartheta}^2(r){\sigma}$ and non-positive radial sectional curvature. We prove, that for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Julian Scheuer

We consider the motion by curvature of a network of smooth curves with multiple junctions in the plane, that is, the geometric gradient flow associated to the length functional. Such a flow represents the evolution of a two--dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga , Vincenzo Maria Tortorelli

We are concerned with the study of different notions of curvature on graphs. We show that if a graph has stronger inner-outer curvature growth than a model graph, then it has faster volume growth too. We also study the relationhips of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Andrea Adriani , Alberto G. Setti

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