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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 obtain new curvature estimates and Bernstein type results for minimal $n-$submanifolds in $\ir{n+m},\, m\ge 2$ under the condition that the rank of its Gauss map is at most 2. In particular, this applies to minimal surfaces in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-09 J. Jost , Y. L. Xin , Ling Yang

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

Given any nondegenerate k-dimensional minimal submanifold K of codimension greater than 1, we prove the existence of families of constant mean curvature submanifolds, with mean curvature varying from one member of the family to another,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fethi Mahmoudi , Rafe Mazzeo , Frank Pacard

We show that the surface area preserving mean curvature flow in Euclidean space exists for all time and converges exponentially to a round sphere, if initially the L^2-norm of the traceless second fundamental form is small (but the initial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-06 Zheng Huang , Longzhi Lin

We construct a class of compact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in Euclidean space with high codimension. In particular, we construct higher codimensional ancient curve shortening flows. Moreover, we characterize the asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Douglas Stryker , Ao Sun

We study the constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space whose asymptotic boundaries are closed codimension-1 submanifolds in sphere at infinity. We consider CMC hypersurfaces as generalizations of minimal hypersurfaces.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baris Coskunuzer

In this paper, we consider a fully nonlinear curvature flow of a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean n-space. This flow involves k-th elementary symmetric function for principal curvature radii and a function of support function. Under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Hongjie Ju , Boya Li , Yannan Liu

In this paper, we study surfaces which evolve by anisotropic mean curvature flow with contact angle boundary condition over a strictly convex domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish a prior gradient estimate for smooth solutions to this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Can Cui , Nung Kwan Yip

We consider the graphical mean curvature flow of strictly area decreasing maps $f:M\to N$, where $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $m>1$ and $N$ a complete Riemannian surface of bounded geometry. We prove long-time existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Renan Assimos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

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

The paper addresses the numerical approximation of two variants of hyperbolic mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. For each evolution law we propose both a finite element method, as well as a finite difference scheme in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Klaus Deckelnick , Robert Nürnberg

In this note we announce results on the mean curvature flow of mean convex sets in 3-dimensions. Loosely speaking, our results justify the naive picture of mean curvature flow where the only singularities are neck pinches, and components…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Bruce Kleiner

We study the convergence of an axially symmetric hypersurface evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

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 classical curvature flows: 1-parameter families of convex embeddings of the 2-sphere into Euclidean 3-space which evolve by an arbitrary (non-homogeneous) function of the radii of curvature. The associated flow of the radii of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

In this paper we are dealing with mean curvature flow with surgeries of two-convex hypersurfaces. The main focus is to expand on the discussion in Section $3$ of Mean Curvature Flow with Surgeries of Two-Convex Hypersurfaces by Huisken and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Alexander Majchrowski

In this paper, we will derive a small energy regularity theorem for the mean curvature flow of arbitrary dimension and codimension. It says that if the parabolic integral of $|A|^2$ around a point in space-time is small, then the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Xiaoli Han , Jun Sun

We extend the estimate obtained in [1] for the mean curvature of a cylindrically bounded proper submanifold in a product manifold with an Euclidean space as one factor to a general product ambient space endowed with a warped product…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-08 Luis J. Alias , Marcos Dajczer

For a mean curvature flow of complete graphical hypersurfaces $M_{t}=\operatorname{graph} u(\cdot,t)$ defined over domains $\Omega_{t}$, the enveloping cylinder is $\partial\Omega_{t}\times\mathbb{R}$. We prove the smooth convergence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wolfgang Maurer