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We study the Willmore problem with free boundary by means of a new {\L}ojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequality for functionals on infinite dimensional manifolds. In contrast to previous works, we do not rely on a gradient-like representation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anna Dall'Acqua , Fabian Rupp , Reiner Schätzle , Manuel Schlierf

We study the evolution of curves with fixed length and clamped boundary conditions moving by the negative $L^2$-gradient flow of the elastic energy. For any initial curve lying merely in the energy space we show existence and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Fabian Rupp , Adrian Spener

We study a volume preserving curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces, driven by a power of the $k$-th elementary symmetric polynomial in the principal curvatures. Unlike most of the previous works on related problems, we do not require…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

We study the volume preserving mean curvature flow of a surface immersed in an asymptotically flat $3$-manifold modeling an isolated gravitating system in General Relativity. We show that, if the ambient manifold has positive ADM mass and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Carlo Sinestrari , Jacopo Tenan

We consider the volume preserving geometric evolution of the boundary of a set under fractional mean curvature. We show that smooth convex solutions maintain their fractional curvatures bounded for all times, and the long time asymptotics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Eleonora Cinti , Carlo Sinestrari , Enrico Valdinoci

We establish a minimal positive existence time of the parametric Willmore flow for any smooth initial data (smooth immersion of a closed oriented surface). The minimal existence time is a function exclusively of geometric data which in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Francesco Palmurella , Tristan Rivière

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

We consider closed immersed surfaces in R^3 evolving by the geometric triharmonic heat flow. Using local energy estimates, we prove interior estimates and a positive absolute lower bound on the lifespan of solutions depending solely on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-02 James McCoy , Scott Parkins , Glen Wheeler

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 prove a quantitative reverse isoperimetric inequality for embedded surfaces with Willmore energy bounded away from $8\pi$. We use this result to analyze the negative $L^2$ gradient flow of the Willmore energy plus a positive multiple of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Simon Blatt

We consider the dynamic property of the volume preserving mean curvature flow. This flow was introduced by Huisken who also proved it converges to a round sphere of the same enclosed volume if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Zheng Huang , Longzhi Lin , Zhou Zhang

We investigate the formation of singularities for surfaces evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. For axially symmetric flows - surfaces of revolution - in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary conditions, we prove that the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

We consider the $L^2$ gradient flow for the Willmore functional in Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry. In the euclidean case E.\;Kuwert and R.\;Sch\"atzle [\textsl{Gradient flow for the Willmore functional,} Comm. Anal. Geom., 10:…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Florian Link

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

We consider compressible fluid flow on an evolving surface with a piecewise Lipschitz-continuous boundary from an energetic point of view. We employ both an energetic variational approach and the first law of thermodynamics to make a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hajime Koba

We study the convergence of an axially symmetric hypersurface evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

We prove that for any complete three-manifold with a lower Ricci curvature bound and a lower bound on the volume of balls of radius one, a solution to the Ricci flow exists for short time. Actually our proof also yields a (non-canonical)…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-30 Raphael Hochard

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

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

Here we continue the investigation of the M\"obius-invariant Willmore flow (MIWF), starting to move in arbitrary smooth and umbilic-free initial immersions $F_0$ which map some fixed compact torus $\Sigma$ into $\mathbb{R}^n$ respectively…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Ruben Jakob