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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 introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

This paper addresses the approximation of the mean curvature flow of thin structures for which classical phase field methods are not suitable. By thin structures, we mean surfaces that are not domain boundaries, typically higher codimension…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Elie Bretin , Chih-Kang Huang , Simon Masnou

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 construct the ancient solutions of the hypersurface flows in Euclidean spaces studied by B. Andrews in 1994. As time $t \rightarrow 0^-$ the solutions collapse to a round point where $0$ is the singular time. But as $t\rightarrow-\infty$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Peng Lu , Jiuru Zhou

Ancient solutions of the Ricci flow arise naturally as models for singularity formation. There has been significant progress towards the classification of such solutions under natural geometric assumptions. Nonnegatively curved solutions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Stephen Lynch , Andoni Royo Abrego

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

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiangzhi Cao

In this note we prove the backwards uniqueness of the mean curvature flow for (codimension one) hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. More precisely, let $F_t, \widetilde{F}_t:M^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be two complete solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Hong Huang

Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei-Bo Su , Kai-Wei Zhao

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

In this paper we classify convex compact ancient solutions to the affine curve shortening flow: namely, any convex compact ancient solution to the affine curve shortening flow must be a shrinking ellipse. The method combines a rescaling…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Shibing Chen

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

In this paper, we consider the classification of compact ancient noncollapsed mean curvature flows of hypersurfaces in arbitrary dimensions. More precisely, we study $k$-ovals in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, defined as ancient noncollapsed solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Beomjun Choi , Wenkui Du , Jingze Zhu

In this paper, we introduce and study the conformal mean curvature flow of submanifolds of higher codimension in the Euclidean space $\bbr^n$. This kind of flow is a special case of a general modified mean curvature flow which is of various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Xingxiao Li , Di Zhang

We consider the evolution by mean curvature flow of a closed submanifold of the complex projective space. We show that, if the submanifold has small codimension and satisfies a suitable pinching condition on the second fundamental form,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Giuseppe Pipoli , Carlo Sinestrari

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

We show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ avoids asymptotically conical and non-spherical compact singularities. We also show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed low-entropy hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

We define a notion of mean curvature flow with surgery for two-dimensional surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with positive mean curvature. Our construction relies on the earlier work of Huisken and Sinestrari in the higher dimensional case. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 S. Brendle , G. Huisken

We first bound the codimension of an ancient mean curvature flow by the entropy. As a consequence, all blowups lie in a Euclidean subspace whose dimension is bounded by the entropy and dimension of the evolving submanifolds. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi