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It is the purpose of this article to establish a technical tool to study regularity of solutions to parabolic equations on manifolds. As applications of this technique, we prove that solutions to the Ricci-DeTurck flow, the surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-29 Yuanzhen Shao

In a recent paper, we established optimal Liouville-type theorems for conformally invariant second-order elliptic equations in the Euclidean space. In this work, we prove an optimal Liouville-type theorem for these equations in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-15 BaoZhi Chu , YanYan Li , Zongyuan Li

We consider a general curvature equation $F(\kappa)=G(X,\nu(X))$, where $\kappa$ is the principal curvature of the hypersurface $M$ with position vector $X$. It includes the classical prescribed curvature measures problem and area measures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Shanwei Ding , Guanghan Li

We consider the problem $F=f(\nu)$ for strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space and solve it for curvature functions $F$ the inverses of which are of class $(K^*)$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Claus Gerhardt

Consider a convex cone in three-dimensional Minkowski space which either contains the lightcone or is contained in it. This work considers mean curvature flow of a proper spacelike strictly mean convex disc in the cone which is graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wilhelm Klingenberg , Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

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

We prove an existence theorem for positive solutions to Lichnerowicz-type equations on complete manifolds with boundary and nonlinear Neumann conditions. This kind of nonlinear problems arise quite naturally in the study of solutions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-16 Guglielmo Albanese , Marco Rigoli

We introduce a new parabolic flow deforming any Riemannian metric on a spin manifold by following a constrained gradient flow of the total scalar curvature. This flow is built out of the well-known Dirac-Einstein functional. We prove local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Yannick Sire , Tian Xu

This paper deals with locally constrained inverse curvature flows in a broad class of Riemannian warped spaces. For a certain class of such flows we prove long time existence and smooth convergence to a radial coordinate slice. In the case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Julian Scheuer

The aim of this thesis is to derive new gradient estimates for parabolic equations. The gradient estimates found are independent of the regularity of the initial data. This allows us to prove the existence of solutions to problems that have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julie Clutterbuck

Recently, the horospherical $p$-Minkowski problem in hyperbolic space was proposed as a counterpart of $L_p$ Minkowski problem in Euclidean space. Through designing a new volume preserving curvature flow, the existence of normalized even…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Li Chen

We consider the conformal decomposition of Einstein's constraint equations introduced by Lichnerowicz and York, on a compact manifold with boundary. We use order relations on appropriate Banach spaces to derive weak solution generalizations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-08-28 M. Holst , J. Kommemi , G. Nagy

We consider a one-parameter family of closed, embedded hypersurfaces moving with normal velocity $G_\kappa = \big ( \sum_{i < j} \frac{1}{\lambda_i+\lambda_j-2\kappa} \big )^{-1}$, where $\lambda_1 \leq \hdots \leq \lambda_n$ denote the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-09 S. Brendle , G. Huisken

In this paper, we study the solvability of a general class of fully nonlinear curvature equations, which can be viewed as generalizations of the equations for Christoffel-Minkowski problem in convex geometry. We will also study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Pengfei Guan , Xiangwen Zhang

In this paper a generalized Gauss curvature flow about a convex hypersurface in the Euclidean $n$-space is studied. This flow is closely related to the Orlicz-Minkowski problem, which involves Gauss curvature and a function of support…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-07 YanNan Liu , Jian Lu

In a recent article, a localization of the Huisken--Stampacchia iteration method was developed, and used to establish localizations of the well-known "umbilic", "convexity" and "cylindrical" estimates for hypersurfaces evolving in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mat Langford , James McCoy

We investigate a natural analog to Lutwak's $p$-affine surface area in $d$-dimensional spherical, hyperbolic and de Sitter space. In particular, we show that these curvature measures appear naturally as the volume derivative of floating…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Florian Besau , Elisabeth M. Werner

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

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 study both divergence and non-divergence form parabolic and elliptic equations in the half space $\{x_d>0\}$ whose coefficients are the product of $x_d^\alpha$ and uniformly nondegenerate bounded measurable matrix-valued functions, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Hongjie Dong , Tuoc Phan