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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

In this paper we establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for hyperbolic geometric flow, and prove the nonlinear stability of hyperbolic geometric flow defined on the Euclidean space with dimension larger than 4. Wave…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Wen-Rong Dai , De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu

Let $(M^{n},g_{0})$ be a $n=3,4,5$ dimensional, closed Riemannian manifold of positive Yamabe invariant. For a smooth function $K>0$ on $M$ we consider a scalar curvature flow, that tends to prescribe $K$ as the scalar curvature of a metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Martin Mayer

In this paper we study a normalised anisotropic Gauss curvature flow of strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space R^n+1. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to the unique, strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Li Chen , Qiang Tu , Di Wu , Ni Xiang

In stark contrast to lower dimensions, we produce a plethora of ancient and immortal Ricci flows in real dimension $4$ with Einstein orbifolds as tangent flows at infinity. For instance, for any $k\in\mathbb{N}_0$, we obtain continuous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Alix Deruelle , Tristan Ozuch

We construct a class of compact ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in Euclidean space with high codimension. In particular, we construct higher codimensional ancient curve shortening flows. Moreover, we characterize the asymptotic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Douglas Stryker , Ao Sun

Michor and Mumford showed that the mean curvature flow is a gradient flow on a Riemannian structure with a degenerate geodesic distance. It is also known to destroy the uniform density of gridpoints on the evolving surfaces. We introduce a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Wenhui Shi , Dmitry Vorotnikov

In this article, we will use the harmonic mean curvature flow to prove a new class of Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for strictly convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space in terms of total curvature, which is the integral of Gaussian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Ben Andrews , Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li

This is a preliminary note on a family of minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere defined by a compatible fourth order equation. The minimal surfaces are geometrically characterized either by having a surface of revolution like induced metric, or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Joe S. Wang

In this paper we will discuss how one may be able to use mean curvature flow to tackle some of the central problems in topology in 4-dimensions. We will be concerned with smooth closed 4-manifolds that can be smoothly embedded as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi , Erik Kjaer Pedersen

We introduce a new broadly unifying family of combinatorial objects, which we call permutation flows, associated to an acyclic directed graph $G$ together with a framing $F$. This new family is combinatorially rich and contains as special…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Rafael S. González D'León , Christopher R. H. Hanusa , Martha Yip

We first bound the codimension of an ancient mean curvature flow by the entropy. As a consequence, all blowups lie in a Euclidean subspace whose dimension is bounded by the entropy and dimension of the evolving submanifolds. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We classify quasiconformal Anosov flows whose strong stable and unstable distributions are at least two dimensional and the sum of these two distributions is smooth. We deduce from this classification result the complete classification of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yong Fang

Let $(M,g)$ be a closed connected oriented (possibly non-spin) smooth four-dimensional manifold with scalar curvature bounded below by $n(n-1)$. In this paper, we prove that if $f$ is a smooth map of non-zero degree from $(M, g)$ to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Simone Cecchini , Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie , Bo Zhu

We construct the ancient solutions of the hypersurface flows in Euclidean spaces studied by B. Andrews in 1994. As time $t \rightarrow 0^-$ the solutions collapse to a round point where $0$ is the singular time. But as $t\rightarrow-\infty$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Peng Lu , Jiuru Zhou

In their seminal work, Gursky and Malchiodi introduced a non-local conformal flow in dimensions $n \geq 5$ to resolve the constant $Q$-curvature problem. They proved sequential convergence of the flow for initial metrics with positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Liuwei Gong , Sanghoon Lee , Juncheng Wei

We construct a mean curvature flow with surgery for submanifolds of arbitrary codimension. The theory applies to closed submanifolds satisfying a natural quadratic pinching condition, which serves as the high-codimension analogue of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

Given a smooth convex cone in the Euclidean $(n+1)$-space ($n\geq2$), we consider strictly mean convex hypersurfaces with boundary which are star-shaped with respect to the center of the cone and which meet the cone perpendicularly. If…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Jing Mao , Qiang Tu

We study mean curvature flow of smooth, axially symmetric surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary data. We show that all singularities at the first singular time must be of type I.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-09 John Head , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

We consider the smooth inverse mean curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces with boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},$ which are perpendicular to the unit sphere from the inside. We prove that the flow hypersurfaces converge to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer