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We introduce a new parabolic flow deforming any Riemannian metric on a spin manifold by following a constrained gradient flow of the total scalar curvature. This flow is built out of the well-known Dirac-Einstein functional. We prove local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Yannick Sire , Tian Xu

The problem of prescribing Gaussian curvature on Riemann surface with conical singularity is considered. Let $(\Sigma,\beta)$ be a closed Riemann surface with a divisor $\beta$, and $K_\lambda=K+\lambda$, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Yunyan Yang , Xiaobao Zhu

We study the existence of at least one conformal metric of prescribed Gaussian curvature on a closed surface $\Sigma$ admitting conical singularities of orders $\alpha_i$'s at points $p_i$'s. In particular, we are concerned with the case…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Teresa D'Aprile , Francesca De Marchis , Isabella Ianni

On a closed Riemannian surface $(M,\bar g)$ with negative Euler characteristic, we study the problem of finding conformal metrics with prescribed volume $A>0$ and the property that their Gauss curvatures $f_\lambda= f + \lambda$ are given…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Franziska Borer , Peter Elbau , Tobias Weth

This paper is concerned with the problem of prescribing Gaussian curvature and geodesic curvature in a compact surface with boundary with conical singularities and corners. Solutions are obtained using a new variational formulation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Luca Battaglia , Francisco Javier Reyes-Sanchez

We study the curve shortening flow on Riemann surfaces with finitely many conformal conical singularities. If the initial curve is passing through the singular points, then the evolution is governed by a degenerate quasilinear parabolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Nikolaos Roidos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj

We investigate the gradient flow of the $L^2$ norm of the Riemannian curvature on surfaces. We show long time existence with arbitrary initial data, and exponential convergence of the volume normalized flow to a constant scalar curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Jeffrey Streets

In this paper, we investigate the prescribed curvature problem associated with a special Lin-Lu-Yau curvature on finite graphs of girth at least 6. We define the corresponding Calabi flow for this curvature type, and establish an equivalent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Yi Li , Jie Wang , Pingsan Yuan , Chao Zheng

A fourth-order dispersive flow equation for closed curves on the canonical two-dimensional unit sphere arises in some contexts in physics and fluid mechanics. In this paper, a geometric generalization of the sphere-valued model is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Eiji Onodera

We show that the mean curvature flow for a closed and rotationally symmetric surface can be formulated as an evolution problem consisting of an evolution equation for the square of the function whose graph is rotated and two ODEs describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Harald Garcke , Bogdan-Vasile Matioc

In this paper, we study the curve shortening flow (CSF) on Riemann surfaces. We generalize Huisken's comparison function to Riemann surfaces and surfaces with conic singularities. We reprove the Gage-Hamilton-Grayson theorem on surfaces. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Biao Ma

In this paper we solve the Bj\"orling problem for the class of immersed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ whose mean curvature is given as an analytic function depending on its Gauss map. As an application, we prove the existence of surfaces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Antonio Bueno

In this paper we study a normalised anisotropic Gauss curvature flow of strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space R^n+1. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to the unique, strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Li Chen , Qiang Tu , Di Wu , Ni Xiang

Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

We prove the longtime existence for the mean curvature flow problem with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition in a Generalized Robertson Walker (GRW) spacetime that obeys the null convergence condition. In addition, we prove that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Jorge Lira , Fernanda Roing

We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces which are evolving by the non-parametric logarithmic Gauss curvature flow subject to a Neumann boundary condition. Solutions are shown to converge smoothly to hypersurfaces moving by translation. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver C. Schnuerer , Hartmut R. Schwetlick

In this article, we will study the isoperimetric problem by introducing a mean curvature type flow in the Riemannian manifold endowed with a non-trivial conformal vector field. This flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Li Jiayu , Pan Shujing

We prove long-time existence and convergence results for spacelike solutions to mean curvature flow in the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n,m}$, which are entire or defined on bounded domains and satisfying Neumann or Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Ben Lambert , Jason D. Lotay

We prove a gradient estimate for graphical spacelike mean curvature flow with a general Neumann boundary condition in dimension $n=2$. This then implies that the mean curvature flow exists for all time and converges to a translating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Ben Lambert

In this paper a generalized Gauss curvature flow about a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean $n$-space is studied. This flow is closely related to the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which involves Gauss curvature and a function of support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 YanNan Liu , Jian Lu
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