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In this paper, we prove a Li-Yau-Hamilton type Harnack estimate for the $f$-mean curvature flow in Euclidean space, which can be viewed as a gradient flow of the weighed area functional with the measure density function $e^{-f}$.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Xiang-Dong Li , Qi Yan

In this article, we first introduce a Gauss curvature type flow for capillary hypersurfaces, which we call capillary Gauss curvature flow. We then show that the flow will shrink to a point in finite time. This is a capillary counterpart (or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Xinqun Mei , Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

This article studies the mean curvature flow of Lagrangian submanifolds. In particular, we prove the following global existence and convergence theorem: if the potential function of a Lagrangian graph in T^{2n} is convex, then the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Knut Smoczyk , Mu-Tao Wang

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

This article deals with flow of plane curves driven by the curvature and external force. We make use of such a geometric flow for the purpose of image segmentation. A parametric model for evolving curves with uniform and curvature adjusted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-17 M. Benes , M. Kimura , P. Paus , D. Sevcovic , T. Tsujikawa , S. Yazaki

We study the provenance of singularity formation under mean curvature flow and volume preserving mean curvature flow in an axially symmetric setting. We prove that if the mean curvature is uniformly bounded on any finite time interval, then…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 John Head , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

In this note, we will show a backwards uniqueness theorem of the mean curvature flow with bounded second fundamental form in arbitrary codimension.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-21 Zhuhong Zhang

We consider a volume preserving curvature evolution of surfaces in an asymptotically Euclidean initial data set with positive ADM-energy. The speed is given by a nonlinear function of the mean curvature which generalizes the spacetime mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Jacopo Tenan

We study the wave analog of the Liouville equation and the constant mean curvature equations in 2 space dimensions, which are energy critical. We exhibit a blow-up criteria for the former using tools from conformal geometry, and we exhibit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-24 Sagun Chanillo , Po-Lam Yung

We show that the norm of the Riemann curvature tensor of any smooth solution to the Ricci flow can be explicitly estimated in terms of its initial values on a given ball, a local uniform bound on the Ricci tensor, and the elapsed time. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Brett Kotschwar , Ovidiu Munteanu , Jiaping Wang

We provide a probabilistic proof of a well known connection between a special case of the Allen-Cahn equation and mean curvature flow. We then prove a corresponding result for scaling limits of the spatial $\Lambda$-Fleming-Viot process…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Alison Etheridge , Nic Freeman , Sarah Penington

In this paper we consider the Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary with appropriate control on its mean curvature and conformal class. We obtain higher order estimates for the curvature and second fundamental form near the boundary,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-07 Panagiotis Gianniotis

By carrying out a point-wise estimate for the second fundamental form, we prove a rigidity theorem of complete noncompact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in codimension one. Moreover, we derive an optimal growth condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Qun Chen , Hongbing Qiu

We consider a fully discrete and explicit scheme for the mean curvature flow of boundaries, based on an elementary diffusion step and a precise redistancing operation. We give an elementary convergence proof for the scheme under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Antonin Chambolle , Daniele De Gennaro , Massimiliano Morini

Let $(M,\bar{g})$ be a K\"ahler surface with a constant holomorphic sectional curvature $k>0$, and $\Sigma$ an immersed symplectic surface in $M$. Suppose $\Sigma$ evolves along the mean curvature flow in $M$. In this paper, we show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-07-06 Xiaoli Han , Jiayu Li

In this paper, we study the line bundle mean curvature flow defined by Jacob and Yau. The line bundle mean curvature flow is a kind of parabolic flows to obtain deformed Hermitian Yang-Mills metrics on a given K\"ahler manifold. The goal of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Xiaoli Han , Hikaru Yamamoto

Optimal-order uniform-in-time $H^1$-norm error estimates are given for semi- and full discretizations of mean curvature flow of surfaces in arbitrarily high codimension. The proposed and studied numerical method is based on a parabolic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold which either is compact or has a pole, and let $\varphi$ be a positive smooth function on $M$. In the warped product $M\times_\varphi\mathbb R$, we study the flow by the mean curvature of a locally…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-17 Alexander A. Borisenko , Vicente Miquel

We proved a Bernstein theorem of ancient solutions to mean curvature flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiangzhi Cao

We consider the obstacle problem of the weak solution for the mean curvature flow, in the sense of Brakke's mean curvature flow. We prove the global existence of the weak solution with obstacles which have $C^{1,1}$ boundaries, in two and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Keisuke Takasao