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Under mean curvature flow, a closed, embedded hypersurface $M(t)$ becomes singular in finite time. For certain classes of mean-convex mean curvature flows, we show the continuity of the first singular time $T$ and the limit set "$M(T)$",…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Kevin Sonnanburg

In this paper, we classify all noncollapsed singularities of the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Specifically, we prove that any ancient noncollapsed solution either is one of the classical historical examples (namely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer

Self-shrinkers are the special solutions of mean curvature flow in $\mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ that evolve by shrinking homothetically; they serve as singularity models for the flow. The entropy of a hypersurface introduced by Colding-Minicozzi is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Jonathan J. Zhu

In this paper, we consider Ricci flows admitting closed and smooth tangent flows in the sense of Bamler [Bam20c]. The tangent flow in question can be either a tangent flow at infinity for an ancient Ricci flow, or a tangent flow at a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-15 Pak-Yeung Chan , Zilu Ma , Yongjia Zhang

This paper studies singularities of mean curvature flows with integral mean curvature bounds $H \in L^\infty L^p_{loc}$ for some $p \in ( n, \infty]$. For such flows, any tangent flow is given by the flow of a stationary cone $\mathbf{C}$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Maxwell Stolarski

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 classify closed convex $\alpha$-curve shortening flows for sub-affine-critical powers $\alpha \leq \frac{1}{3}$. In addition, we show that closed convex smooth finite entropy $\alpha$-curve shortening flows with $\frac{1}{3}<\alpha$ is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Kyeongsu Choi , Liming Sun

In this paper, we prove that an ancient smooth curve shortening flow with finite-entropy embedded in $\mathbb{R}^2$ has a unique tangent flow at infinity. To this end, we show that its rescaled flows backwardly converge to a line with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Kyeongsu Choi , Dong-Hwi Seo , Wei-Bo Su , Kai-Wei Zhao

In this paper, we study the collpasing K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow on Hirzebruch surfaces, which develops finite time singularities. We show that any tangent flow based at a point in the singular time slice is the K\"{a}hler-Ricci flow associated…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Jiangtao Li

It has long been conjectured that starting at a generic smooth closed embedded surface in R^3, the mean curvature flow remains smooth until it arrives at a singularity in a neighborhood of which the flow looks like concentric spheres or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

It is a fundamental open problem for the mean curvature flow, and in fact for many partial differential equations, whether or not all blowup limits are selfsimilar. In this short note, we prove that for the mean curvature flow of mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Beomjun Choi , Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

It was shown by Angenent, Altschuler and Giga, and by Angenent and Velazquez that there exist closed mean curvature flow solutions that extinct to a point in finite time, without ever becoming convex prior to their extinction. These…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Sigurd Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

A well-known question of Perelman concerns the classification of noncompact ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in dimension $3$ which have positive sectional curvature and are $\kappa$-noncollapsed. In this paper, we solve the analogous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-15 S. Brendle , K. Choi

We first give a general introduction to the mean curvature flow, and then discuss fundamental results established over the last 10 years that yield a precise theory for the flow through singularities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. With the aim of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Robert Haslhofer

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

In this paper we study the singularities of the mean curvature flow from a symplectic surface or from a Lagrangian surface in a K\"ahler-Einstein surface. We prove that the blow-up flow $\Sigma_s^\infty$ at a singular point $(X_0, T_0)$ of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-15 Xiaoli Han , Jiayu Li

In this paper we prove that the generic singularities of mean curvature flow of closed embedded surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ modeled by closed self-shrinkers with multiplicity has multiplicity one. Together with the previous result by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Ao Sun

In this paper, we prove that any non-flat ancient solution to K\"ahler-Ricci flow with bounded nonnegative bisectional curvature has asymptotic volume ratio zero. We also prove that any gradient shrinking solitons with positive bisectional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lei Ni

In this paper we demonstrate that if two mean curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces $M^1_t$ and $M^2_t$ encounter only isolated, multiplicity one, asymptotically conical singularities at the first singular time $T$, and if $M^1_T=M^2_T$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-19 J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Or Hershkovits

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