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In this paper, we study the regular geometric behavior of the mean curvature flow (MCF) of submanifolds in the standard Gaussian metric space $({\mathbb R}^{m+p},e^{-|x|^2/m}\ol g)$ where $({\mathbb R}^{m+p},\ol g)$ is the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-08 An-Min Li , Xingxiao Li , Di Zhang

In this paper, we study the regularized mean curvature flow starting from invariant hypersurfaces in a Hilbert space equipped with an isometric almost free Hilbert Lie group action whose orbits are minimal regularizable submanifolds, where…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Naoyuki Koike

In a rotationally symmetric space $\oM$ around an axis A (whose precise definition includes all real space forms), we consider a domain $G$ limited by two equidistant hypersurfaces orthogonal to A. Let $M \subset \oM$ be a revolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-26 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

We study the mean curvature flow of smooth $m$-dimensional compact submanifolds with quadratic pinching in the Riemannian manifold $\mathbb{C}P^n$. Our main focus is on the case of high codimension, $k\geq 2$. We establish a codimension…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-16 Artemis A. Vogiatzi

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

We consider the graphical mean curvature flow of strictly area decreasing maps $f:M\to N$, where $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $m>1$ and $N$ a complete Riemannian surface of bounded geometry. We prove long-time existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Renan Assimos , Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

A new monotone quantity in graphical mean curvature flows of higher codimensions is identified in this work. The submanifold deformed by the mean curvature flow is the graph of a map between Riemannian manifolds, and the quantity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Chung-Jun Tsai , Mao-Pei Tsui , Mu-Tao Wang

We flow a hypersurface in Euclidean space by mean curvature flow with a Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary manifold is any torus of revolution. If we impose the conditions that the initial manifold is compatible and does not…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Ben Lambert

In this paper we consider the evolution of a graph-like hypersurface by anisotropic mean curvature flow, under some restrictions on the anisotropic area integrand. We find interior estimates (in both time and space) on the gradient of such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julie Clutterbuck

Consider a pair of smooth, possibly noncompact, properly immersed hypersurfaces moving by mean curvature flow, or, more generally, a pair of weak set flows. We prove that if the ambient space is Euclidean space and if the distance between…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Brian White

This paper continues the investigation of isoperimetric inequalities through volume preserving and area decreasing mean curvature type flows related to conformal Killing vector fields. Results of this kind prior to this paper all studied…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Joshua Flynn , Jacob Reznikov

We consider the evolution by inverse mean curvature flow of a closed, mean convex and star-shaped hypersurface in the complex hyperbolic space. We prove that the flow is defined for any positive time, the evolving hypersurface stays…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Giuseppe Pipoli

We investigate the convergence of the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then along the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Raphael Tsiamis

In the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1,k}$, we consider the mean curvature flow of $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifolds with spacelike codimension one and arbitrary timelike codimension $k$. We show that if the initial submanifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Ben Andrews , Qiyu Zhou

It is shown that a hypersurface of a space form is the initial data for a solution to the mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces if, and only if, it is isoparametric. By solving an ordinary differential equation, explicit solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Hiuri Fellipe Santos dos Reis , Keti Tenenblat

We provide explicit examples which show that mean convexity (i.e. positivity of the mean curvature) and positivity of the scalar curvature are non-preserved curvature conditions for hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space evolving under either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

In this paper we complete the study started in [Pi2] of evolution by inverse mean curvature flow of star-shaped hypersurface in non-compact rank one symmetric spaces. We consider the evolution by inverse mean curvature flow of a closed,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-20 Giuseppe Pipoli

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We show that the evolution of isoparametric hypersurfaces of Riemannian manifolds by the mean curvature flow is given by a reparametrization of the parallel family in short time, as long as the uniqueness of the mean curvature flow holds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Felippe Guimarães , João Batista Marques dos Santos , João Paulo dos Santos