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We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the rescaled mean curvature flow on a closed hypersurface may converge to a limit self-similar solution, i.e. a shrinker. Our main result implies that any solution which converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Rory Martin-Hagemayer , Natasa Sesum

We study the geometric flow of a planar curve driven by its curvature and the normal derivative of its capacity potential. Under a convexity condition that is natural to our problem, we establish long term existence and large time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Luis Caffarelli , Hui Yu

We first establish a local gradient estimate for anisotropic $p$-harmonic functions. A key feature of our estimate is that the constant remains bounded as $p\to 1$; consequently, in the limit $p\to 1$, this estimate yields the local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Chaoqun Gao , Yong Wei , Rong Zhou

We study the obstacle problem associated to mean curvature flow. We add to the geometric vanishing-viscosity approximation of Evans and Spruck a singular perturbation that penalizes the violation of the constraint, and pass to the limit.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Tim Laux , Keisuke Takasao

We study the phenomenon of Type-II curvature blow-up in mean curvature flows of rotationally symmetric noncompact embedded hypersurfaces. Using analytic techniques based on formal matched asymptotics and the construction of upper and lower…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-09 James Isenberg , Haotian Wu

In this article, we extend Huisken's theorem that convex surfaces flow to round points by mean curvature flow. We construct certain classes of mean convex and non-mean convex hypersurfaces that shrink to round points and use these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Alexander Mramor , Alec Payne

We construct a mean curvature flow with surgery for submanifolds of arbitrary codimension. The theory applies to closed submanifolds satisfying a natural quadratic pinching condition, which serves as the high-codimension analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

We prove a monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow with surgery. This formula differs from Huisken's monotonicity formula by an extra term involving the mean curvature. As a consequence, we show that a surgically modified flow which is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 S. Brendle

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 high codimension mean curvature flow of a submanifold $\mathcal{M}^n$ of dimension $n$ in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ subject to the quadratic curvature condition $ |A|^{2}\leq c_n |H|^{2}, c _n = \min\{ \frac{4}{3n} ,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Huy The Nguyen

We prove the sharp local L^1 - L^\infty smoothing estimate for the logarithmic fast diffusion equation, or equivalently, for the Ricci flow on surfaces. Our estimate almost instantly implies an improvement of the known L^p - L^\infty…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-17 Peter M. Topping , Hao Yin

We consider the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface under a volume preserving curvature flow. The speed is given by a power of the m-th mean curvature plus a volume preserving term, including the case of powers of the mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Carlo Sinestrari

In this article, we study a locally constrained fully nonlinear curvature flow for convex capillary hypersurfaces in half-space. We prove that the flow preserves the convexity, exists for all time, and converges smoothly to a spherical cap.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Xinqun Mei , Liangjun Weng

We consider the mean curvature flow of a closed hypersurface in the complex or quaternionic projective space. Under a suitable pinching assumption on the initial data, we prove apriori estimates on the principal curvatures which imply that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Giuseppe Pipoli , Carlo Sinestrari

We study mean curvature flow in $\mathbb S_K^{n+1}$, the round sphere of sectional curvature $K>0$, under the quadratic curvature pinching condition $|A|^{2} < \frac{1}{n-2} H^{2} + 4 K$ when $n\ge 4$ and $|A|^{2} <…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mat Langford , Huy The Nguyen

The mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of volume functionals on the space of submanifolds. We prove a fundamental regularity result of the mean curvature flow in this paper: a Lipschitz submanifold with small local Lipschitz norm…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

We provide a direct proof of a non-collapsing estimate for compact hypersurfaces with positive mean curvature moving under the mean curvature flow: Precisely, if every point on the initial hypersurface admits an interior sphere with radius…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-02 Ben Andrews

In the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,k}$, we consider the mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifolds with spacelike codimension one and arbitrary timelike codimension $k$. We show that if the initial submanifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ben Andrews , Qiyu Zhou

Some modification of the old version.In this note we give a proof of a result which is related to Perelman's theorem in Section 10.3 of the paper "The entropy formula for the Ricci flow and its geometric applications".

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Peng Lu

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of a variant of the mean curvature flow. We consider the evolution of hypersurfaces with normal speed given by $H^k$, $k \ge 1$, where $H$ denotes the mean curvature. We use a level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Axel Kröner , Eva Kröner , Heiko Kröner