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In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow of submanifolds of arbitrary codimension in $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^m$. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then the mean curvature flow converges to a…

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We construct a new example of an immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$, which converges to a plane with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

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A recent article by Li and Lv considered fully nonlinear contraction of convex hypersurfaces by certain nonhomogeneous functions of curvature, showing convergence to points in finite time in cases where the speed is a function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 James McCoy

We show that for certain one-parameter families of initial conditions in $\mathbb R^3$, when we run mean curvature flow, a genus one singularity must appear in one of the flows. Moreover, such a singularity is robust under perturbation of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Ao Sun

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 give the first rigorous construction of complete, embedded self-shrinking hypersurfaces under mean curvature flow, since Angenent's torus in 1989. The surfaces exist for any sufficiently large prescribed genus $g$, and are non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Stephen J. Kleene , Niels Martin Møller

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

We study closed, embedded hypersurfaces in Euclidean space evolving by fully nonlinear curvature flows, whose speed is given by a symmetric, monotone increasing, $1$-homogeneous, positive underlying speed function $F$ composed with a…

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We study the formation of singularities for the mean curvature flow of monotone Lagrangians in $\C^n$. More precisely, we show that if singularities happen before a critical time then the tangent flow can be decomposed into a finite union…

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In this paper, we prove that any nontrivial $\mathrm{SO}(k )\times \mathrm{SO}(n+1-k)$-symmetric ancient compact noncollapsed solution of the mean curvature flow agrees up to scaling and rigid motion with the $\mathrm{O}(k)\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Wenkui Du , Robert Haslhofer

We establish rigidity results for ancient solutions to the free boundary mean curvature flow in manifolds with convex boundary. In particular, we show that any free boundary minimal hypersurface of Morse index I admits an I-parameter family…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Theodora Bourni , Giada Franz

In this note we analyze the Almgren-Taylor-Wang scheme for mean curvature flow in the case of mean convex initial conditions. We show that the scheme preserves strict mean convexity and, by compensated compactness techniques, that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Guido De Philippis , Tim Laux

We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Luís Almeida , Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

A priori estimates for the mean curvature evolution of Killing graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds with asymptotic Dirichlet conditions are established. As an application, the existence of the corresponding parabolic flow is proved,…

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This short note studies the collapsing behavior of the K\"ahler-Ricci flow on a compact K\"ahler manifold X admitting a holomorphic submersion X -> B where B is a K\"ahler manifold of lower dimension than X. We give cohomological and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Frederick Tsz-Ho Fong

In this paper, we prove that the mean curvature blows up at the same rate as the second fundamental form at the first singular time $T$ of any compact, Type I mean curvature flow. For the mean curvature flow of surfaces, we obtain similar…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-13 Nam Q. Le , Natasa Sesum

This paper concerns the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface in ${\mathbb{R}}^{n+1}$, in direction of its inner unit normal vector, where the speed is given by a smooth function depending only on the mean curvature, and satisfies some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Shunzi Guo

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

In this paper, we study fully nonlinear curvature flows of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We prove that if the initial hypersurface satisfies certain conditions, then the flow exists for all time. Moreover, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

We show that any strictly mean convex translator of dimension $n\geq 3$ which admits a cylindrical estimate and a corresponding gradient estimate is rotationally symmetric. As a consequence, we deduce that any translating solution of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-01 Theodora Bourni , Mat Langford