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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 show that a generic levelset of the viscosity solution to mean curvature flow is a distributional solution in the framework of sets of finite perimeter by Luckhaus and Sturzenhecker, which in addition saturates the optimal energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Anton Ullrich , Tim Laux

We prove two new estimates for the level set flow of mean convex domains in Riemannian manifolds. Our estimates give control - exponential in time - for the infimum of the mean curvature, and the ratio between the norm of the second…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-05 Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

A general purely crystalline mean curvature flow equation with a nonuniform driving force term is considered. The unique existence of a level set flow is established when the driving force term is continuous and spatially Lipschitz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Yoshikazu Giga , Norbert Pozar

In this paper, we study the $k$-cylindrical singular set of mean curvature flow in $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ for each $1\leq k\leq n-1$. We prove that they are locally contained in a $k$-dimensional $C^{2,\alpha}$-submanifold after removing some…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ao Sun , Zhihan Wang , Jinxin Xue

We prove that the mean curvature flow of a generic closed embedded hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^4$ or $\mathbb{R}^5$ with entropy $\leq 2$, or with entropy $\leq \lambda(\mathbb{S}^1)$ if in $\mathbb{R}^6$, encounters only generic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Otis Chodosh , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

This paper proves that, at the first singular time for a smoothly immersed surface moving by mean curvature flow in a n-manifold, each tangent flow is given by a smooth, branched shrinker, possibly with multiplicity. If n=3 and if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

In this paper, we first investigate a new locally constrained mean curvature flow (1.5) and prove that if the initial hypersurface is of smoothly compact starshaped, then the solution of the flow (1.5) exists for all time and converges to a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-02 J. Cui , P. Zhao

This paper studies the dynamics of mean curvature flow as it approaches a cylindrical singularity. We proved that the rescaled mean curvature flow converging to a smooth generalized cylinder can be written as a graph over the cylinder in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Ao Sun , Jinxin Xue

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

It is conjectured that the mean curvature blows up at the first singular time of the mean curvature flow in Euclidean space, at least in dimensions less or equal to 7. We show that the mean curvature blows up at the singularities of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Longzhi Lin , Natasa Sesum

We prove that sufficiently low-entropy closed hypersurfaces can be perturbed so that their mean curvature flow encounters only spherical and cylindrical singularities. Our theorem applies to all closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

We study graphical mean curvature flow of complete solutions defined on subsets of Euclidean space. We obtain smooth long time existence. The projections of the evolving graphs also solve mean curvature flow. Hence this approach allows to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Mariel Sáez Trumper , Oliver C. Schnürer

Given a singular Riemannian foliation on a compact Riemannian manifold, we study the mean curvature flow equation with a regular leaf as initial datum. We prove that if the leaves are compact and the mean curvature vector field is basic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Marcos Alexandrino , Marco Radeschi

We study the mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\R^{n+1}$, with initial surfaces sufficiently close to the standard $n$-dimensional sphere. The closeness is in the Sobolev norm with the index greater than $\frac{n}{2}+1$ and therefore…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Israel Michael Sigal , Wenbin Kong

We introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

In this article, we prove the mean convex neighborhood conjecture for the mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Namely, if the flow has a spherical or cylindrical singularity at a space-time point $X=(x,t)$, then there exists a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

The skew mean curvature flow(SMCF), which origins from the study of fluid dynamics, describes the evolution of a codimension two submanifold along its binormal direction. We study the basic properties of the SMCF and prove the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Chong Song , Jun Sun

We showed earlier that the level set function of a monotonic advancing front is twice differentiable everywhere with bounded second derivative. We show here that the second derivative is continuous if and only if the flow has a single…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi