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We show for a non homogeneous boundary value problem for the Ricci flow on the disk that when the initial metric has positive curvature and the boundary is convex then the initial metric is deformed, via the normalized flow and along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Jean C. Cortissoz , Alexander Murcia

This paper investigates the combinatorial $\alpha$-curvature for vertex scaling of piecewise hyperbolic metrics on polyhedral surfaces, which is a parameterized generalization of the classical combinatorial curvature. A discrete…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Xu Xu , Chao Zheng

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao

We consider the Gauss curvature type flow for uniformly convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}\ (n\geqslant 2)$. We prove that if the initial closed hypersurface is smooth and uniformly convex, then the smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Tianci Luo , Rong Zhou

A combinatorial version of Yamabe flow is presented based on Euclidean triangulations coming from sphere packings. The evolution of curvature is then derived and shown to satisfy a heat equation. The Laplacian in the heat equation is shown…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 David Glickenstein

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

In this paper we discuss a simple relation, which was previously missed, between the high co-dimensional isoperimetric problem of finding a filling with small volume to a given cycle, and extinction estimates for singular, high…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Or Hershkovits

A recent paper [CGT] studies the evolution of star-shaped mean convex hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space by a class of nonhomogeneous expanding curvature flows. In the present paper we consider the same problem in the real, complex and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Giuseppe Pipoli

Given a completely arbitrary surface, whether or not it has bounded curvature, or even whether or not it is complete, there exists an instantaneously complete Ricci flow evolution of that surface that exists for a specific amount of time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-03 Gregor Giesen , Peter M. Topping

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 show that the properties of Lagrangian mean curvature flow are a special case of a more general phenomenon, concerning couplings between geometric flows of the ambient space and of totally real submanifolds. Both flows are driven by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Jason D. Lotay , Tommaso Pacini

We give an overview of the existence and regularity results for curvature flows and how these flows can be used to solve some problems in geometry and physics.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Claus Gerhardt

In this paper, we study the mean curvature type flow for hypersurfaces in the unit Euclidean ball with capillary boundary, which was introduced by Wang-Xia and Wang-Weng. We show that if the initial hypersurface is strictly convex, then the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Yingxiang Hu , Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

In this paper the authors study the hyperbolic geometric flow on Riemann surfaces. This new nonlinear geometric evolution equation was recently introduced by the first two authors motivated by Einstein equation and Hamilton's Ricci flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-01-09 De-Xing Kong , Kefeng Liu , De-Liang Xu

We study the evolution of compact convex curves in two-dimensional space forms. The normal speed is given by the difference of the weighted inverse curvature with the support function, and in the case where the ambient space is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Kwok-Kun Kwong , Yong Wei , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We show the existence of a global unique and analytic solution for the mean curvature flow, the surface diffusion flow and the Willmore flow of entire graphs for Lipschitz initial data with small Lipschitz norm. We also show the existence…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-04 Herbert Koch , Tobias Lamm

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 introduce the shifted inverse curvature flow in hyperbolic space. This is a family of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space expanding by $F^{-p}$ with positive power $p$ for a smooth, symmetric, strictly increasing and $1$-homogeneous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Xianfeng Wang , Yong Wei , Tailong Zhou

We consider mean curvature flow of n-dimensional surface clusters. At (n-1)-dimensional triple junctions an angle condition is required which in the symmetric case reduces to the well-known 120 degree angle condition. Using a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Daniel Depner , Harald Garcke , Yoshihito Kohsaka

We study a volume/area preserving curvature flow of hypersurfaces that are convex by horospheres in the hyperbolic space, with velocity given by a generic positive, increasing function of the mean curvature, not necessarly homogeneous. For…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Maria Chiara Bertini , Giuseppe Pipoli