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We prove a local version of the noncollapsing estimate for mean curvature flow. By combining our result with earlier work of X.-J. Wang, it follows that certain ancient convex solutions that sweep out the entire space are noncollapsed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Simon Brendle , Keaton Naff

In this paper we consider closed non-collapsed ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow ($n \ge 2$) which are uniformly two-convex. We prove that any two such ancient solutions are the same up to translations and scaling. In particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

In the last 15 years, White and Huisken-Sinestrari developed a far-reaching structure theory for the mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces. Their papers provide a package of estimates and structural results that yield a precise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

By carrying out refined curvature estimates, we prove better rigidity theorems of complete noncompact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in higher codimension under various Gauss image restriction.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-22 Hongbing Qiu , Y. L. Xin

We study solutions of the mean curvature flow which are defined for all negative curvature times, usually called ancient solutions. We give various conditions ensuring that a closed convex ancient solution is a shrinking sphere. Examples of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-23 G. Huisken , C. Sinestrari

The goal of this paper is to relax convexity assumption on some classical results in mean curvature flow. In the first half of the paper, we prove a generalized version of Hamilton's differential Harnack inequality which holds for mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Junyoung Park

We make several improvements on the results of M.-T. Wang in [8] and his joint paper with M.-P. Tsui [7] concerning the long time existence and convergence for solutions of mean curvature flow in higher co-dimension. Both the curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-19 Kuo-Wei Lee , Yng-Ing Lee

We prove a parabolically scale-invariant variation of the planarity estimate in \cite{Na22} for higher codimension mean curvature flow, borrowing ideas from work of Brendle--Huisken--Sinestrari \cite{BHS}. Additionally, we prove convexity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Tang-Kai Lee , Keaton Naff , Jingze Zhu

An example of a compact, non-convex, embedded ancient solution for the curve shortening flow, which is asymptotic to Yin-Yang curve, is constructed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Jumageldi Charyyev

We prove the existence of closed convex ancient solutions to curvature flows which become more and more oval for large negative times. The speed function is a general symmetric function of the principal curvatures, homogeneous of degree…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Susanna Risa , Carlo Sinestrari

We construct a translating solution to anisotropic curve shortening flow and show that for a given anisotropic factor $g:S^1\to\mathbb{R}_+$, and a given direction and speed, this translator is unique. We then construct an ancient compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Theodora Bourni , Benjamin Richards

We construct an ancient solution to planar curve shortening. The solution is at all times compact and embedded. For $t\ll0$ it is approximated by the rotating Yin-Yang soliton, truncated at a finite angle $\alpha(t) = -t$, and closed off by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Yongzhe Zhang , Connor Olson , Ilyas Khan , Sigurd Angenent

We show that the only convex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow are the stationary lines, shrinking circles, Grim Reapers and Angenent ovals, completing the classification initiated by Daskalopoulos, Hamilton and Sesum and X.-J.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Theodora Bourni , Mat Langford , Giuseppe Tinaglia

In this paper, we consider noncompact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ ($n \geq 3$) which are strictly convex, uniformly two-convex, and noncollapsed. We prove that such an ancient solution is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-19 S. Brendle , K. Choi

We define a new notion of translations in the hyperbolic plane and explicitly solve the equation of the curve shortening flow. Next, we consider the class of ancient convex solutions and solve the equation of the curve shortening flow when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Ivan Krznarić , Rafael López

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces on the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$ by smooth functions of the Weingarten map. We introduce the notion of `quasi-ancient' solutions for flows that do not admit non-trivial, convex, ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Paul Bryan , Mohammad N. Ivaki , Julian Scheuer

We proved a Bernstein theorem of ancient solutions to mean curvature flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiangzhi Cao

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 establish rigidity results for ancient solutions to the free boundary mean curvature flow in manifolds with convex boundary. In particular, we show that any free boundary minimal hypersurface of Morse index I admits an I-parameter family…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Theodora Bourni , Giada Franz

We prove some estimates for convex ancient solutions (the existence time for the solution starts from $-\infty$) to the power-of-mean curvature flow, when the power is strictly greater than 1/2. As an application, we prove that in two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Shibing Chen
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