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This work considers the question of whether mean-curvature flow can be modified to avoid the formation of singularities. We analyze the finite-elements discretization and demonstrate why the original flow can result in numerical instability…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-16 Michael Kazhdan , Jake Solomon , Mirela Ben-Chen

In this paper, we consider the contracting curvature flow of smooth closed surfaces in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space and in $3$-dimensional sphere. In the hyperbolic case, we show that if the initial surface $M_0$ has positive scalar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We give the first rigorous construction of complete, embedded self-shrinking hypersurfaces under mean curvature flow, since Angenent's torus in 1989. The surfaces exist for any sufficiently large prescribed genus $g$, and are non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Stephen J. Kleene , Niels Martin Møller

We prove existence for many examples of shrinkers by producing compact, smoothly embedded surfaces that, under mean curvature flow, develop singularities at which the shrinkers occur as blowups.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 David Hoffman , Francisco Martin , Brian White

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

We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in $R^n$. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Wolfgang Maurer

We consider one of the generic regimes of formation of singularities. We obtain a detailed description of a possibly small, but fixed, neighborhood of the blowup point, up to (and including) the blowup time, and find that it is mean convex.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Zhou Gang

We show compactness in the locally smooth topology for certain natural families of asymptotically conical self-expanding solutions of mean curvature flow. Specifically, we show such compactness for the set of all two-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Jacob Bernstein , Lu Wang

We use holomorphic disks to describe the formation of singularities in the mean curvature flow of monotone Lagrangian submanifolds in $\mathbb C^{n}$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-11 K. Groh , M. Schwarz , K. Smoczyk , K. Zehmisch

In this paper, we establish uniform and sharp volume estimates for the singular set and the quantitative singular strata of mean curvature flows starting from a smooth, closed, mean-convex hypersurface in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Hanbing Fang , Yu Li

We provide a self-contained treatment of set-theoretic subsolutions to flow by mean curvature, or, more generally, to flow by mean curvature plus an ambient vector field. The ambient space can be any smooth Riemannian manifold. Most…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Or Hershkovits , Brian White

We study the averaged mean curvature flow, also called the volume preserving mean curvature flow, in the particular setting of axisymmetric surfaces embedded in R^3 satisfying periodic boundary conditions. We establish analytic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-12 Jeremy LeCrone

Let (M,g) be a complete 3-dimensional asymptotically flat manifold with everywhere positive scalar curvature. We prove that, given a compact subset K of M, all volume preserving stable constant mean curvature surfaces of sufficiently large…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-18 Michael Eichmair , Jan Metzger

We show that flatness of the normal bundle is preserved under the mean curvature flow in the Euclidean space and use this to generalize a classical result for hypersurfaces due to Ecker-Huisken in the case of submanifolds with arbitrary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Knut Smoczyk , Guofang Wang , Y. L. Xin

In this paper, we introduce a new constrained mean curvature type flow for capillary boundary hypersurfaces in space forms. We show the flow exists for all time and converges globally to a spherical cap. Moreover, the flow preserves the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos

A variant of the Gauss curvature flow for closed and convex hypersurfaces is considered. We reveal that if the initial hypersurface is pinched enough, then this property is preserved. Furthermore, based on some structure assumptions on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Jinrong Hu , Ping Zhang

Let N be a (n+1)-dimensional globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifold with a compact Cauchy hypersurface. We consider curvature flows in N with different curvature functions F (including the mean curvature, the gauss curvature and the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-13 Matthias Makowski

In this paper, we show that if the mean curvature of a closed smooth embedded mean curvature flow in R^3 is of type-I, then the rescaled flow at the first finite singular time converges smoothly to a self-shrinker flow with multiplicity…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Haozhao Li , Bing Wang

In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in the unit ball. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface, and monotonically decreases an energy functional $E$. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng