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In this paper, we study a family of curves on $S^2$ that defines a two-dimensional smooth projective plane. We use curve shortening flow to prove that any two-dimensional smooth projective plane can be smoothly deformed through a family of…
We present a new implementation of anisotropic mean curvature flow for contour recognition. Our procedure couples the mean curvature flow of planar closed smooth curves, with an external field from a potential of point-wise charges. This…
We derive pointwise curvature estimates for graphical mean curvature flows in higher codimensions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such estimates without assuming smallness of first derivatives of the defining map. An…
In this paper, we study curve shortening flows on rotational surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We assume that the surfaces have negative Gauss curvatures and that some condition related to the Gauss curvature and the curvature of embedded curve…
We consider the damped hyperbolic motion of polygons by a linear semi-discrete analogue of polyharmonic curve diffusion. We show that such flows may transition any polygon to any other polygon, reminiscent of the Yau problem of evolving one…
In this paper, we consider the mean curvature flow with driving force on fixed extreme points in the plane. We give a general local existence and uniqueness result of this problem with $C^2$ initial curve. For a special family of initial…
We show the existence of a properly immersed translating solution to curve diffusion flow in the plane. Curve diffusion flow is a higher order version of curve shortening flow, namely \[ \left( \frac{dX}{dt}\right) ^{\perp}=-\kappa_{ss}N.…
Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow…
In this paper, we study a new area-preserving curvature flow for closed convex planar curves. This flow will decrease the length of the evolving curve and make the curve more and more circular during the evolution process. And finally, the…
The curve shortening flow is a geometric heat equation for curves and provides an accessible setting to illustrate many important concepts from nonlinear partial differential equations, including maximum principle estimates, monotonicity…
This paper deals with a generalized length-preserving flow for convex curves in the plane. It is shown that the flow exists globally and deforms convex curves into circles as time tends to infinity.
The behavior of the curve shortening flow has been extensively studied. Gage, Hamilton, and Grayson proved that, under the curve shortening flow, an embedded closed curve in the Euclidean plane becomes convex after a finite time and then…
An example of a compact, non-convex, embedded ancient solution for the curve shortening flow, which is asymptotic to Yin-Yang curve, is constructed.
We consider closed, embedded, smooth curves in the plane and study their behaviour under curve flows with a global forcing term. We prove an analogue to Huisken's distance comparison principle for curve shortening flow for initial curves…
In this survey, we will focus on the mean curvature flow theory with sphere theorems, and discuss the recent developments on the convergence theorems for the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension inspired by the Yau rigidity theory…
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,…
The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…
Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are…
The aim of this paper is to introduce a notion of mean curvature flow soliton general enough to encompass target spaces of constant sectional curvature, Riemannian products or, in increasing generality, warped product spaces.
We study a Neumann problem related to the evolution of graphs under mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds endowed with a Killing vector field. We prove that in a particular case these graphs converge to a bounded minimal graph which…