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We address the classification of ancient solutions to fully nonlinear curvature flows for hypersurfaces. Under natural conditions on the speed of motion we classify ancient solutions which are convex, noncollapsing, uniformly two-convex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-06 A. Cogo , S. Lynch , O. Vičánek Martínez

In this paper we investigate the rigidity of ancient solutions of the mean curvature flow with arbitrary codimension in space forms. We first prove that under certain sharp asymptotic pointwise curvature pinching condition the ancient…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

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

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

In this paper we consider closed non-collapsed ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow ($n \ge 2$) which are uniformly two-convex. We prove that any two such ancient solutions are the same up to translations and scaling. In particular,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Sigurd B. Angenent , Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We study properly immersed ancient solutions of the codimension one mean curvature flow in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space, and classify the convex hulls of the subsets of space reached by any such flow. In particular, it follows that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Francesco Chini , Niels Martin Møller

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

Mean curvature flows of isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres have been studied by Liu and Terng. In particular, it was proved that such flows always have ancient solutions. This is also true for mean curvature flows of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-24 Xiaobo Liu , Wanxu Yang

We show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ avoids asymptotically conical and non-spherical compact singularities. We also show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed low-entropy hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

This article discusses a relatively new geometric flow, called the hypersymplectic flow. In the first half of the article we explain the original motivating ideas for the flow, coming from both 4-dimensional symplectic topology and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Joel Fine , Chengjian Yao

In this short article, we prove the existence of ancient solutions of the mean curvature flow that for t -> 0 collapse to a round point, but for t -> -infinity become more and more oval: near the center they have asymptotic shrinkers…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-20 Robert Haslhofer , Or Hershkovits

We introduce a classification conjecture for $\kappa$-solutions in 4d Ricci flow. Our conjectured list includes known examples from the literature, but also a new 1-parameter family of $\mathbb{Z}_2^2\times \mathrm{O}_3$-symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Robert Haslhofer

This paper initiates a classification programme of flows of $\mathrm{SU}(2)$-structures on $4$-manifolds which have short-time existence and uniqueness. Our approach adapts a representation-theoretic method originally due to Bryant in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Udhav Fowdar , Henrique N. Sá Earp

We study the classification of the pairs $(N, \,X)$ where $N$ is a Stein surface and $X$ is a complete holomorphic vector field with isolated singularities on $N$. We describe the role of transverse sections in the classification of $X$ and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2014-07-18 T. Ito , B. Scardua , Y. Yamagishi

In the present paper we study a type of generic singularity of mean curvature flow modelled on the bubble-sheet $\mathbb S^1\times\mathbb R^3$ , and we derive an asymptotic profile for a neighborhood of singularity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Zhou Gang , Shengwen Wang

We consider an embedded convex ancient solution $\Gamma_t$ to the curve shortening flow in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We prove that there are only two possibilities: the family $\Gamma_t$ is either the family of contracting circles, which is a type I…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-12 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Richard Hamilton , Natasa Sesum

We construct steady non-spherical bubbles and drops, which are traveling wave solutions to the axisymmetric two-phase Euler equations with surface tension, whose inner phase is a bounded connected domain. The solutions have a uniform…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 David Meyer , Lukas Niebel , Christian Seis

We study solutions of high codimension mean curvature flow defined for all negative times, usually referred to as ancient solutions. We show that any compact ancient solution whose second fundamental form satisfies a certain natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

In this article, we introduce a new type of mean curvature flow for bounded star-shaped domains in space forms and prove its longtime existence, exponential convergence without any curvature assumption. Along this flow, the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-23 Pengfei Guan , Junfang Li

We study curvature flows in the locally homogeneous case (e.g. compact quotients of Lie groups, solvmanifolds, nilmanifolds) in a unified way, by considering a generic flow under just a few natural conditions on the broad class of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Jorge Lauret