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We construct new ancient compact solutions to the Yamabe flow. Our solutions are rotationally symmetric and converge, as $t \to -\infty$, to two self-similar complete non-compact solutions to the Yamabe flow moving in opposite directions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-01-21 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Manuel del Pino , John King , Natasa Sesum

We study compact non-selfsimilar ancient noncollapsed solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, called ancient ovals. Our main result is the classification of $k$-ovals: any $k$-oval (characterized by having cylindrical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Beomjun Choi , Wenkui Du , Ziyi Zhao

We prove rigidity theorems for ancient solutions of geometric flows of immersed submanifolds. Specifically, we find pinching conditions on the second fundamental form that characterize the shrinking sphere among compact ancient solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Susanna Risa , Carlo Sinestrari

In this paper we study the classification of ancient convex solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\R^{n+1}$. An open problem related to the classification of type II singularities is whether a convex translating solution is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-02-08 Xu-Jia Wang

We proved a Bernstein theorem for ancient solution to symplectic mean curvature flow via the complex phase map .

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Xiangzhi Cao

We construct a new compact convex embedded ancient solution of the $\kappa^\alpha$ flow in $\mathbb R^2$, $\alpha\in(\frac12,1)$ that lies between two parallel lines. Using this solution we classify all convex ancient solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-21 Theodora Bourni , Julie Clutterbuck , Xuan Hien Nguyen , Alina Stancu , Guofang Wei , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In this paper, we study $\kappa$-noncollapsed ancient solutions to the Ricci flow with nonnegative curvature operator in higher dimensions. We impose one further assumption: one of the asymptotic shrinking gradient Ricci solitons is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Xiaolong Li , Yongjia Zhang

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

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

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

We prove the existence of non-smooth solutions to fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-17 Nikolai Nadirashvili , Serge Vladuts

We prove a local version of the noncollapsing estimate for mean curvature flow. By combining our result with earlier work of X.-J. Wang, it follows that certain ancient convex solutions that sweep out the entire space are noncollapsed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Simon Brendle , Keaton Naff

We generalize the ancient solutions of the Ricci flow on certain principal ${\rm SO}(3)$ bundles over compact quaternionic K\"ahler manifolds constructed by Bakas, Kong, and Ni to certain $RP^3$ fibre bundles over a product of two compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Peng Lu , Y. K. Wang

Ancient solutions of the Ricci flow arise naturally as models for singularity formation. There has been significant progress towards the classification of such solutions under natural geometric assumptions. Nonnegatively curved solutions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Stephen Lynch , Andoni Royo Abrego

In this paper, we prove that any nontrivial $\mathrm{SO}(k )\times \mathrm{SO}(n+1-k)$-symmetric ancient compact noncollapsed solution of the mean curvature flow agrees up to scaling and rigid motion with the $\mathrm{O}(k)\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Wenkui Du , Robert Haslhofer

Mean curvature flow for isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres was studied by the authors in [LT]. In this paper, we will show that all these solutions are ancient solutions. We also discuss rigidity of ancient mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Xiaobo Liu , Chuu-Lian Terng

We study ancient mean curvature flows in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose tangent flow at $-\infty$ is a shrinking cylinder $\mathbb{R}^{k}\times S^{n-k}(\sqrt{2(n-k)|t|})$, where $1\leq k\leq n-1$. We prove that the cylindrical profile function…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-07 Wenkui Du , Jingze Zhu

We show that every $n$-dimensional, $\kappa$-noncollapsed, noncompact, complete ancient solution to the Ricci flow with uniformly PIC for $n=4$ or $n\ge 12$ has weakly PIC$_2$ and bounded curvature. Combining this with earlier results, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Jae Ho Cho , Yu Li

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

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