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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

In this article, we prove the mean convex neighborhood conjecture for the mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Namely, if the flow has a spherical or cylindrical singularity at a space-time point $X=(x,t)$, then there exists a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

We prove convergence of solutions to the parabolic Allen-Cahn equation to Brakke's motion by mean curvature in space forms, generalizing previous results from [15] in Euclidean space. We show that a sequence of measures, associated to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Adriano Pisante , Fabio Punzo

We give a proof that Brakke's mean curvature flow under the unit density assumption is smooth almost everywhere in space-time. More generally, if the velocity is equal in a weak sense to its mean curvature plus some given \alpha-H\"{o}lder…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Yoshihiro Tonegawa

For a $k$-dimensional Brakke flow on an open subset $U \subset \mathbf{R}^{n}$, over an open time interval $J$, we prove the existence of a canonical space-time-Grassmann measure $\lambda$, over $J \times \mathbf{G}_{k} (U)$, and give a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Yu Tong Liu , Myles Workman

We study Brakke's mean curvature flow with obstacles and with a right-angle boundary condition. Assuming that the obstacles have $C^{1,1}$-boundaries we prove that a weak solution exists globally in time. To show the existence we apply the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-08 Katerina Nik , Keisuke Takasao

We explain the construction of some solutions of the Stokes system with a given set of singular points, in the sense of Caffarelli, Kohn and Nirenberg. By means of a partial regularity theorem (proved elsewhere), it turns out that we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Romito

In this article we use the mean curvature flow with surgery to derive regularity estimates for the level set flow going past Brakke regularity in certain special conditions allowing for 2-convex regions of high density. We also show a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Alexander Mramor

In this paper, we prove the mean-convex neighborhood conjecture for neck singularities of the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for all $n\geq 3$: we show that if a mean curvature flow $\{M_t\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ has an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits , Brian White

Brakke flow is defined with a variational inequality, which means it may have discontinuous mass over time, i.e. have mass drop. It has long been conjectured that the Brakke flow associated to a nonfattening level set flow has no mass drop…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Alec Payne

We employ the curve shortening flow to establish three new results on the dynamics of geodesic flows of closed Riemannian surfaces. The first one is the stability, under $C^0$-small perturbations of the Riemannian metric, of certain flat…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Marcelo R. R. Alves , Marco Mazzucchelli

In this paper we study the regularity property of Hele-Shaw flow, where source and drift are present in the evolution. More specifically we consider H\"{o}lder continuous source and Lipschitz continuous drift. We show that if the free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Inwon Kim , Yuming Paul Zhang

In the present paper, we study the existence of Brakke-type weak mean curvature flow satisfying the contact angle condition for general angle $ \theta \in ( 0 , \pi ) $ via Ilmanen's regularization. The main ingredients of the result are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Kiichi Tashiro

Suppose that a family of $k$-dimensional surfaces in $\mathbb R^n$ evolves by the motion law of $v=h+u^\perp$ in the sense of Brakke's formulation of velocity, where $v$ is the normal velocity vector, $h$ is the generalized mean curvature…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Ryunosuke Mori , Eita Tomimatsu , Yoshihiro Tonegawa

We give new short proofs of Allard's regularity theorem for varifolds with bounded first variation and Brakke's regularity theorem for integral Brakke flows with bounded forcing. They are based on a decay of flatness, following from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Guido De Philippis , Carlo Gasparetto , Felix Schulze

In this paper, we study the $k$-cylindrical singular set of mean curvature flow in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ for each $1\leq k\leq n-1$. We prove that they are locally contained in a $k$-dimensional $C^{2,\alpha}$-submanifold after removing some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ao Sun , Zhihan Wang , Jinxin Xue

In this paper, we propose a new notion of Brakke inequality for volume preserving mean curvature flow. We show the existence of integral varifolds solving the flow globally-in-time in the corresponding Brakke sense using the phase field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Andrea Chiesa , Keisuke Takasao

In this paper we study the local regularity of closed surfaces immersed in a Riemannian 3-manifold flowing by Willmore flow. We establish a pair of concentration-compactness alternatives for the flow, giving a lower bound on the maximal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Jan Metzger , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this paper we consider the steepest descent $H^{-1}$-gradient flow of the length functional for immersed plane curves, known as the curve diffusion flow. It is known that under this flow there exist both initially immersed curves which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-19 Glen Wheeler

This paper contains a new proof of the short-time existence for the flow by curvature of a network of curves in the plane. Appearing initially in metallurgy and as a model for the evolution of grain boundaries, this flow was later treated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Jorge Lira , Rafe Mazzeo , Alessandra Pluda , Mariel Saez