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We consider the volume preserving flow of smooth, closed and convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1} (n\geq 2)$ with the speed given by arbitrary positive power $\alpha$ of the Gauss curvature. We prove that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

Under mean radius of curvature flow, a closed convex surface in Euclidean space is known to expand exponentially to infinity. In the 3-dimensional case we prove that the oriented normals to the flowing surface converge to the oriented…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We classify the self-similar solutions to a class of Weingarten curvature flow of connected compact convex hypersurfaces, isometrically immersed into space forms with non-positive curvature, and obtain a new characterization of a sphere in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Guanghan Li , Isabel Salavessa , Chuanxi Wu

In this paper, we prove that convex hypersurfaces under the flow by powers $\alpha>0$ of the Gauss curvature in space forms $\mathbb{N}^{n+1}(\kappa)$ of constant sectional curvature $\kappa$ $(\kappa=\pm 1)$ contract to a point in finite…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Min Chen , Jiuzhou Huang

By adapting the test functions introduced by Choi-Daskaspoulos \cite{c-d} and Brendle-Choi-Daskaspoulos \cite{b-c-d} and exploring properties of the $k$-th elementary symmetric functions $\sigma_{k}$ intensively, we show that for any fixed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-25 Shanze Gao , Haizhong Li , Hui Ma

This paper concerns closed hypersurfaces of dimension $n(\geq 2)$ in the hyperbolic space ${\mathbb{H}}_{\kappa}^{n+1}$ of constant sectional curvature $\kappa$ evolving in direction of its normal vector, where the speed is given by a power…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-20 Shunzi Guo , Guanghan Li , Chuanxi Wu

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 study the motion of smooth, closed, strictly convex hypersurfaces in Rn+1 expanding in the direction of their normal vector field with speed depending on the k-th elementary symmetric polynomial of the principal radii of curvature. As an…

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

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

In this paper, we consider the anisotropic $\alpha$-Gauss curvature flow for complete noncompact convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with the anisotropy determined by a smooth closed uniformly convex Wulff shape. We show that for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Shujing Pan , Yong Wei

We consider the volume preserving flow of smooth, closed and convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the Gauss curvature. For a large class of speed functions,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface $\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We consider the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface under a volume preserving curvature flow. The speed is given by a power of the m-th mean curvature plus a volume preserving term, including the case of powers of the mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Carlo Sinestrari

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 show the uniqueness of strictly convex closed smooth self-similar solutions to the $\alpha$-Gauss curvature flow with $(1/n) < \alpha < 1+(1/n)$. We introduce a Pogorelov type computation, and then we apply the strong maximum principle.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Kyeongsu Choi , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

We study the flow $M_t$ of a smooth, strictly convex hypersurface by its mean curvature in $\mathrm{R}^{n+1}$. The surface remains smooth and convex, shrinking monotonically until it disappears at a critical time $T$ and point $x^*$ (which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Ilmanen , Natasa Sesum

We consider contracting and expanding curvature flows in $\Ss$. When the flow hypersurfaces are strictly convex we establish a relation between the contracting hypersurfaces and the expanding hypersurfaces which is given by the Gau{\ss}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Claus Gerhardt

We introduce the shifted inverse curvature flow in hyperbolic space. This is a family of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space expanding by $F^{-p}$ with positive power $p$ for a smooth, symmetric, strictly increasing and $1$-homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Xianfeng Wang , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We study fully nonlinear geometric flows that deform strictly $k$-convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space with pointwise normal speed given by a concave function of the principal curvatures. Specifically, the speeds we consider are obtained…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Stephen Lynch

We consider convex hypersurfaces for which the ratio of principal curvatures at each point is bounded by a function of the maximum principal curvature with limit 1 at infinity. We prove that the ratio of circumradius to inradius is bounded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-05 Ben Andrews , James McCoy