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We derive a uniqueness and stability principle for surface diffusion before the onset of singularities. The perturbations, however, are allowed to undergo topological changes. The main ingredient is a relative energy inequality, which in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Milan Kroemer , Tim Laux

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

The recent work of Morini-Oronzio-Spadaro and the third author shows that, in three dimensions, a flat-flow solution of the volume-preserving mean curvature flow that converges to a single ball, which is the case for instance when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Vedansh Arya , Seongmin Jeon , Vesa Julin

We consider an expanding flow of smooth, closed, uniformly convex hypersurfaces in (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space with speed fu^{alpha}{sigma}_k^{beta}, where u is the support function of the hypersurface, alpha, beta are two constants,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Weimin Sheng , Caihong Yi

We consider the flow of closed convex hypersurfaces in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed given by a power of the $k$-th mean curvature $E_k$ plus a global term chosen to impose a constraint involving the enclosed volume…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Ben Andrews , Yong Wei

In this paper, we consider an expanding flow of closed, smooth, uniformly convex hypersurface in Euclidean \mathbb{R}^{n+1} with speed u^\alpha f^\beta (\alpha, \beta\in\mathbb{R}^1), where u is support function of the hypersurface, f is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Shanwei Ding , Guanghan Li

We study the length-preserving elastic flow of curves in arbitrary codimension with free boundary on hypersurfaces. This constrained gradient flow is given by a nonlocal evolution equation with nonlinear higher-order boundary conditions. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Anna Dall'Acqua , Manuel Schlierf

We prove that for the mean curvature flow of two-convex hypersurfaces the intrinsic diameter stays uniformly controlled as one approaches the first singular time. We also derive sharp $L^{n-1}$-estimates for the regularity scale of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Panagiotis Gianniotis , Robert Haslhofer

We consider the volume preserving flow of smooth, closed and convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1} (n\geq 2)$ with the speed given by arbitrary positive power $\alpha$ of the Gauss curvature. We prove that if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

In this paper, we study a class of flows of closed, star-shaped hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ with speed $(\sinh r)^{{\alpha}/{\beta}} \sigma_{k}^{{1}/{\beta}}$, where $\sigma_{k}$ is the $k$-th elementary symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Fang Hong

We consider the surface diffusion and Willmore flows acting on a general class of (possibly non-compact) hypersurfaces parameterized over a uniformly regular reference manifold possessing a tubular neighborhood with uniform radius. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Jeremy LeCrone , Yuanzhen Shao , Gieri Simonett

In this paper, we first consider a class of expanding flows of closed, smooth, star-shaped hypersurface in Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed $u^\alpha f^{-\beta}$, where $u$ is the support function of the hypersurface, $f$ is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Shanwei Ding , Guanghan Li

We consider a shrinking flow of smooth, closed, uniformly convex hypersurfaces in (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space with speed fu^{alpha}{sigma}_n^{beta}, where u is the support function of the hypersurface, alpha, beta are two constants,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Weimin Sheng , Caihong Yi

We study the rescaled mean curvature flow (MCF) of hypersurfaces that are global graphs over a fixed cylinder of arbitrary dimensions. We construct an explicit stable manifold for the rescaled MCF of finite codimensions in a suitable…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-22 Jingxuan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, to establish sufficient conditions under which the mean curvature flow supported on a hypersphere with exterior Dirichlet boundary exists globally in time and converges to a minimal surface,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

In an ambient space with rotational symmetry around an axis (which include the Hyperbolic and Euclidean spaces), we study the evolution under the volume-preserving mean curvature flow of a revolution hypersurface M generated by a graph over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-27 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

In this work, we discuss the stability of Donaldson's flow of surfaces in a hyperk\"ahler 4-manifold. In \cite{WT2}, Wang and Tsai proved a uniqueness theorem and $C^1$ dynamic stability theorem of the mean curvature flow for minimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Kuan-Hui Lee

We consider normal velocity of smooth sets evolving by the $s-$fractional diffusion. We prove that for small time, the normal velocity of such sets is nearly proportional to the mean curvature of the boundary of the initial set for $s\in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Anoumou Attiogbe , El Hadji Abdoulaye Thiam , Mouhamed Moustapha Fall

We consider a compact, star-shaped, mean convex hypersurface $\Sigma^2\subset \mathbb{R}^3$. We prove that in some cases the flow exists until it shrinks to a point in a spherical manner, which is very typical for convex surfaces as well…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-03 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We consider a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss mean curvature flow scaled with a term that depends on a quantity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke