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We consider the Gauss curvature type flow for uniformly convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\ (n\geqslant 2)$. We prove that if the initial closed hypersurface is smooth and uniformly convex, then the smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Tianci Luo , Rong Zhou

In this article, we study a locally constrained mean curvature flow for star-shaped hypersurfaces with capillary boundary in the half-space. We prove its long-time existence and the global convergence to a spherical cap. Furthermore, the…

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

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

For $n\geq 2$, we construct $I$-dimensional family of embedded ancient solutions to mean curvature flow arise from an unstable minimal hypersurface $\Sigma$ with finite total curvature in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, where $I$ is the Morse index of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Yongheng Han

We study the long time existence theory for a non local flow associated to a free boundary problem for a trapped non liquid drop. The drop has free boundary components on two horizontal plates and its free energy is anisotropic and axially…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-02 Bennett Palmer , Wenxiang Zhu

We define a new notion of translations in the hyperbolic plane and explicitly solve the equation of the curve shortening flow. Next, we consider the class of ancient convex solutions and solve the equation of the curve shortening flow when…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Ivan Krznarić , Rafael López

We address the classification of ancient solutions to the Gauss curvature flow under the assumption that the solutions are contained in a cylinder of bounded cross section. For each cylinder of convex bounded cross-section, we show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Beomjun Choi , Kyeongsu Choi , Panagiota Daskalopoulos

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

In this paper, we study the mean curvature type flow for hypersurfaces in the unit Euclidean ball with capillary boundary, which was introduced by Wang-Xia and Wang-Weng. We show that if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex, then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Yingxiang Hu , Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

Studying the geometric flow plays a powerful role in mathematics and physics. In this paper, we introduce the mean curvature flow on Finsler manifolds and give a number of examples of the mean curvature flow. For Minkowski spaces, a special…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-06 Fanqi Zeng , Qun He , Bin Chen

We consider a variational scheme for the anisotropic (including crystalline) mean curvature flow of sets with strictly positive anisotropic mean curvature. We show that such condition is preserved by the scheme, and we prove the strict…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

Mean curvature flows of isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres have been studied by Liu and Terng. In particular, it was proved that such flows always have ancient solutions. This is also true for mean curvature flows of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Xiaobo Liu , Wanxu Yang

We prove some non-existence theorems for translating solutions to Lagrangian mean curvature flow. More precisely, we show that translating solutions with an $L^2$ bound on the mean curvature are planes and that almost-calibrated translating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-28 André Neves , Gang Tian

We study noncompact surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow. Without any symmetry assumptions, we prove that any solution that is $C^3$-close at some time to a standard neck will develop a neckpinch singularity in finite time, will become…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Zhou Gang , Dan Knopf

We consider a motion of non-closed planar curves with infinite length. The motion is governed by a steepest descent flow for the geometric functional which consists of the sum of the length functional and the total squared curvature. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Matteo Novaga , Shinya Okabe

We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with normal velocity given by a positive power of the mean curvature. The hypersurfaces under consideration are assumed to be strictly mean convex (positive mean curvature),…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Wolfgang Maurer

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

In this paper, we prove the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery for mean-convex surfaces with free boundary. To do so, we implement our recent new approach for constructing flows with surgery without a prior estimates in the free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Robert Haslhofer

In this work we consider the global existence of volume-preserving crystalline curvature flow in a non-convex setting. We show that a natural geometric property, associated with reflection symmetries of the Wulff shape, is preserved with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Inwon Kim , Dohyun Kwon , Norbert Požár

We prove: "If $M$ is a compact hypersurface of the hyperbolic space, convex by horospheres and evolving by the volume preserving mean curvature flow, then it flows for all time, convexity by horospheres is preserved and the flow converges,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel