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We study compact non-selfsimilar ancient noncollapsed solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, called ancient ovals. Our main result is the classification of $k$-ovals: any $k$-oval (characterized by having cylindrical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Beomjun Choi , Wenkui Du , Ziyi Zhao

We show that for generic smooth compact initial surfaces the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$ has spherical or nondegenerate neck pinch singularities at the first singular time. In particular the singularities at the first singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Gábor Székelyhidi

In this paper we study the geometry of first time singularities of the mean curvature flow. By the curvature pinching estimate of Huisken and Sinestrari, we prove that a mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\R^{n+1}$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-20 Weimin Sheng , Xu-Jia Wang

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

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 consider ancient noncollapsed mean curvature flows $M_t=\partial K_t\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that do not split off a line. It follows from general theory that the blowdown of any time-slice, $\lim_{\lambda \to 0} \lambda…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Wenkui Du , Robert Haslhofer

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

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

Self-shrinkers model singularities of the mean curvature flow; they are defined as the special solutions that contract homothetically under the flow. Colding-Ilmanen-Minicozzi showed that cylindrical self-shrinkers are rigid in a strong…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Qiang Guang , Jonathan J. Zhu

A possible evolution of a compact hypersurface in R^n by mean curvature past singularities is defined via the level set flow. In the case that the initial hypersurface has positive mean curvature, we show that the Brakke flow associated to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Metzger , Felix Schulze

For any $n$-dimensional smooth manifold $\Sigma$, we show that all the singularities of the mean curvature flow with any initial mean convex hypersurface in $\Sigma$ are cylindrical (of convex type) if the flow converges to a smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Qi Ding

We propose a construction of mean curvature flows by approximation for very general initial data, in the spirit of the works of Brakke and of Kim & Tonegawa based on the theory of varifolds. Given a general varifold, we construct by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Blanche Buet , Gian Paolo Leonardi , Simon Masnou , Abdelmouksit Sagueni

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

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Raphael Tsiamis

A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper, we first investigate a new locally constrained mean curvature flow (1.5) and prove that if the initial hypersurface is of smoothly compact starshaped, then the solution of the flow (1.5) exists for all time and converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 J. Cui , P. Zhao

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

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 prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao

We study mean curvature flow in $\mathbb S_K^{n+1}$, the round sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2} H^{2} + 4 K$ when $n\ge 4$ and $|A|^{2} <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen