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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

We consider the rescaled flow associated with a mean curvature flow that develops a compact singularity of multiplicity one. We prove that the ``decay order'' of such a rescaled flow is uniformly bounded. As a consequence, we prove a unique…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Sourav Ghosh

The paper studies a curvature flow linked to the physical phenomenon of wound closure. Under the flow we show that a closed, initially convex or close-to-convex curve shrinks to a round point in finite time. We also study the singularity,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Shuhui He , Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

We study the flow $M_t$ of a smooth, strictly convex hypersurface by its mean curvature in $\mathrm{R}^{n+1}$. The surface remains smooth and convex, shrinking monotonically until it disappears at a critical time $T$ and point $x^*$ (which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tom Ilmanen , Natasa Sesum

It is shown that in a class of maximal globally hyperbolic spacetimes admitting two local Killing vectors, the past (defined with respect to an appropriate time orientation) of any compact constant mean curvature hypersurface can be covered…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Alan D. Rendall

Motivated by the limiting behavior of an explicit class of compact ancient curve shortening flows, we prove codimension bounds for ancient mean curvature flows by their tangent flow at $-\infty$, generalizing a theorem for cylinders in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Douglas Stryker , Ao Sun

We prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao

In this note we announce results on the mean curvature flow of mean convex sets in 3-dimensions. Loosely speaking, our results justify the naive picture of mean curvature flow where the only singularities are neck pinches, and components…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Tobias H. Colding , Bruce Kleiner

Given a smooth, symmetric, homogeneous of degree one function $f\left(\lambda_{1},\cdots,\,\lambda_{n}\right)$ satisfying $\partial_{i}f>0$ for all $i=1,\cdots,\,n$, and a rotationally symmetric cone $\mathcal{C}$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Siao-Hao Guo

In this paper we investigate the singularities of Lagrangian mean curvature flows in $\mathbf{C}^m$ by means of smooth singularity models. Type I singularities can only occur at certain times determined by invariants in the cohomology of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Andrew A. Cooper

Let $(M,\bar{g}, e^{-f}d\mu)$ be a complete metric measure space with Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant. We prove that, in $M$, there is no complete two-sided $L_f$-stable immersed $f$-minimal hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Xu Cheng , Tito Mejia , Detang Zhou

This paper concerns the inverse mean curvature flow of convex hypersurfaces which are Lipschitz in general. After defining a weak solution, we study the evolution of the singularity by looking at the blow-up tangent cone around each…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Beomjun Choi , Pei-Ken Hung

We show that an eternal solution to a complete, locally conformally flat Yamabe flow, $\frac{\partial}{\partial t} g = -Rg$, with uniformly bounded scalar curvature and positive Ricci curvature at $t = 0$, where the scalar curvature assumes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Natasa Sesum

We prove local well-posedness as well as singularity formation for the g-SQG patch model on the plane (so on a domain without a boundary), with $\alpha\in(0,\frac 16]$ and patches being allowed to touch each other. We do this by bypassing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Junekey Jeon , Andrej Zlatos

In this paper we study a neighborhood of generic singularities formed by mean curvature flow (MCF). We limit our consideration to the singularities modelled on $\mathbb{S}^3\times\mathbb{R}$ because, compared to the cases…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Gang Zhou

In this note we establish several versions of a compactness theorem for submanifolds. In particular we require only bounds on the second fundamental form and do not assume volume or diameter bounds. As an application we prove a compactness…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-26 Andrew A Cooper

We consider the flat flow approach for the mean curvature equation with forcing in an Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n$ of dimension at least 2. Our main results states that tangential balls in $\mathbb R^n$ under any flat flow with a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Vesa Julin , Joonas Niinikoski

We prove a sharp quartic curvature pinching for the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{S}^{n+m}$, $m\ge2$, which generalises Pu's work on the convergence of submanifolds in $\mathbb{S}^{n+m}$ to a round point. Using a blow up argument, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Artemis A. Vogiatzi

In this article, we study the ergodicity of the geodesic flows on surfaces with no focal points. Let $M$ be a smooth connected and closed surface equipped with a $C^\infty$ Riemannian metric $g$, whose genus $\mathfrak{g} \geq 2$. Suppose…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Weisheng Wu , Fei Liu , Fang Wang

We prove the mean curvature flow of the graph of a symplectomorphism between Riemann surfaces converges smoothly as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang