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Context. Backreactions from large-scale inhomogeneities may provide an elegant explanation for the observed accelerated expansion of the universe without the need to introduce dark energy. Aims. We propose a cosmological test for a specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Christoph Saulder , Steffen Mieske , Eelco van Kampen , Werner W. Zeilinger

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

Normalizing flows are a powerful tool to create flexible probability distributions with a wide range of potential applications in cosmology. Here we are studying normalizing flows which represent cosmological observables at field level,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Adam Rouhiainen , Utkarsh Giri , Moritz Münchmeyer

The question of the averaging of inhomogeneous spacetimes in cosmology is important for the correct interpretation of cosmological data. In this paper we suggest a conceptually simpler approach to averaging in cosmology based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Coley , J. Brannlund , J. Latta

The main objective of this article is to study the mean curvature flow into an ambient compact smooth manifold M with boundary and with a Riemannian metric that evolves by a self-similar solution of the Ricci flow coupled with the harmonic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 José N. V. Gomes , Matheus Hudson , Carlos M. de Sousa

We present a particle method for estimating the curvature of interfaces in volume-of-fluid simulations of multiphase flows. The method is well suited for under-resolved interfaces, and it is shown to be more accurate than the parabolic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Petr Karnakov , Sergey Litvinov , Petros Koumoutsakos

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 study how the initial inhomogeneities of the universe affect the onset of inflation in the closed universe. We consider the model of a chaotic inflation which is driven by a massive scalar field. In order to construct an inhomogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Osamu Iguchi , Hideki Ishihara

The symmetry group of the mean curvature flow in general ambient Riemannian manifolds is determined, based on which we define generalized solitons to the mean curvature flow. We also provide examples of homothetic solitons in non-Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Xu Han , Zhonghua Hou

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow having equifocal submanifolds as initial data. The investigation are performed by investigating the mean curvature flow having the lifted submanifolds to a Hilbert space through a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-01 Naoyuki Koike

In this paper, we investigate the mean curvature flow of compact surfaces in $4$-dimensional space forms. We prove the convergence theorems for the mean curvature flow under certain pinching conditions involving the normal curvature, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Dong Pu , Jingjing Su , Hongwei Xu

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Charles M. Elliott , Harald Garcke , Balázs Kovács

The purpose of this study is to describe a perfect fluid matter distribution that leads to a constant curvature region, thanks to the effect of a non-minimal coupling. This distribution exhibits a density profile within the range found in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 J. Páramos , O. Bertolami

We consider the inverse mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces in space forms. We show that such a flow exists if and only if the initial hypersurface is isoparametric. The flow is characterized by an algebraic equation satisfied by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Alancoc dos Santos Alencar , Keti Tenenblat

In the article, we generalize some recent results of Colding and Minicozzi on generic singularities of mean curvature flow to curved ambient spaces. To do so, we make use of a weighted monotonicity formula to derive an "almost monotonicity"…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Alexander Mramor

In this paper, we provide a proof of Hamilton's extrinsic pinching theorem using the mean curvature flow approach.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Liang Cheng , Zhenyu Lu

Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Robert Haslhofer

We approach the cosmological inflation thought symmetries of differential equations. We consider the general inflaton field in a homogeneous Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker spacetime and with the use of conformal transformations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Andronikos Paliathanasis

We give a new proof for the existence of mean curvature flow with surgery of 2-convex hypersurfaces in $R^N$, as announced in arXiv:1304.0926. Our proof works for all $N \geq 3$, including mean convex surfaces in $R^3$. We also derive a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

We define a notion of mean curvature flow with surgery for two-dimensional surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with positive mean curvature. Our construction relies on the earlier work of Huisken and Sinestrari in the higher dimensional case. One of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-01 S. Brendle , G. Huisken