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We study area- and length-preserving curvature flows for embedded closed curves on pinched Hadamard surfaces. In the variable-curvature setting, the evolution equations contain additional lower-order terms, so the PDE analysis requires…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sara Albert-Niclòs , Esther Cabezas-Rivas

We consider the evolution by mean curvature of smooth $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ which are compact and quadratically pinched. We will be primarily interested in flows of high codimension, the case $k\geq 2$. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

We classify closed convex $\alpha$-curve shortening flows for sub-affine-critical powers $\alpha \leq \frac{1}{3}$. In addition, we show that closed convex smooth finite entropy $\alpha$-curve shortening flows with $\frac{1}{3}<\alpha$ is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Kyeongsu Choi , Liming Sun

We study the curve diffusion flow for closed curves immersed in the Minkowski plane $\mathcal{M}$, which is equivalent to the Euclidean plane endowed with a closed, symmetric, convex curve called an indicatrix that scales the length of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Scott Parkins , Glen Wheeler

We show that any smooth closed immersed curve in $\mathbb R^n$ with a one-to-one convex projection onto some $2$-plane develops a Type~I singularity and becomes asymptotically circular under Curve Shortening flow in $\mathbb R^n$. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Qi Sun

The behavior of the curve shortening flow has been extensively studied. Gage, Hamilton, and Grayson proved that, under the curve shortening flow, an embedded closed curve in the Euclidean plane becomes convex after a finite time and then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Naotoshi Fujihara

In this paper, we first investigate the flow of convex surfaces in the space form $\mathbb{R}^3(\kappa)~(\kappa=0,1,-1)$ expanding by $F^{-\alpha}$, where $F$ is a smooth, symmetric, increasing and homogeneous of degree one function of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Haizhong Li , Xianfeng Wang , Yong Wei

We study the gradient flow of the $L^2-$norm of the second fundamental form of smooth immersions of two-dimensional surfaces into compact Riemannian manifolds. By analogy with the results obtained for the Willmore flow in Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Annibale Magni

We study the gradient flow of the length functional on the space of planar immersed closed curves, where the gradient is taken with respect to a family of homogeneous Sobolev $H^1$-type Riemannian metrics depending on parameters $\lambda>0$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Philip Schrader , Glen Wheeler , Valentina Wheeler

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow in smooth Riemannian manifolds of the form $([R_{0},\infty)\times S^n,\bar{g})$ with metric $\bar{g}=dr^2+{\vartheta}^2(r){\sigma}$ and non-positive radial sectional curvature. We prove, that for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Julian Scheuer

We study curve-shortening flow for twisted curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ (i.e., curves with nowhere vanishing curvature $\kappa$ and torsion $\tau$) and define a notion of torsion-curvature entropy. Using this functional, we show that either the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Gabriel Khan

We derive the system of differential equations for the gradient flow characterizing the training process of linear in-context learning in full generality. Next, we explore the geometric structure of the gradient flows in two instances,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Songtao Lu , Yingdong Lu , Tomasz Nowicki

We prove that on compact Alexandrov spaces with curvature bounded below the gradient flow of the Dirichlet energy in the $L^2$-space produces the same evolution as the gradient flow of the relative entropy in the $L^2$-Wasserstein space.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Nicola Gigli , Kazumasa Kuwada , Shin-ichi Ohta

We construct new examples of immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected hypersurfaces in closed manifolds, which converge to minimal hypersurfaces with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jingwen Chen , Ao Sun

We examine a steepest energy descent flow with obstacle constraint in higher order energy frameworks where the maximum principle is not available. We construct the flow under general assumptions using De Giorgi's minimizing movement scheme.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Marius Müller

Given two disjoint nested embedded closed curves in the plane, both evolving under curve shortening flow, we show that the modulus of the enclosed annulus is monotonically increasing in time. An analogous result holds within any ambient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Arjun Sobnack , Peter M. Topping

Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

We investigate the low-energy behavior of the gradient flow of the $L^2$ norm of the Riemannian curvature on four-manifolds. Specifically, we show long time existence and exponential convergence to a metric of constant sectional curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Jeff Streets

We show, using strong subadditivity and Lorentz covariance, that in three dimensional space-time the entanglement entropy of a circle is a concave function. This implies the decrease of the coefficient of the area term and the increase of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 H. Casini , Marina Huerta

We investigate for the first time the curve shortening flow in the metric-affine plane and prove that under simple geometric condition it shrinks a closed convex curve to a "round point" in finite time. This generalizes the classical result…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Vladimir Rovenski