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In this paper, we consider a new length preserving curve flow for convex curves in the plane. We show that the global flow exists, the area of the region bounded by the evolving curve is increasing, and the evolving curve converges to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-11-14 Li Ma , Anqiang Zhu

In \cite{Luo0}, Feng Luo conjectured that the discrete Yamabe flow will converge to the constant curvature PL-metric after finite number of surgeries on the triangulation. In this paper, we prove that the flow can always be extended…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Huabin Ge , Wenshuai Jiang

Nonlinear variational methods have become very powerful tools for many image processing tasks. Recently a new line of research has emerged, dealing with nonlinear eigenfunctions induced by convex functionals. This has provided new insights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Raz Z. Nossek , Guy Gilboa

We introduce a regularization method for mean curvature flow of a submanifold of arbitrary codimension in the Euclidean space, through higher order equations. We prove that the regularized problems converge to the mean curvature flow for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Bellettini , Carlo Mantegazza , Matteo Novaga

Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as implicit…

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MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-velocity field, bypassing expensive numerical integration. However, we find that the highly curved generative trajectories of existing models…

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An algorithm is proposed for generalized mean curvature flow of closed two-dimensional surfaces, which include inverse mean curvature flow, powers of mean and inverse mean curvature flow, etc. Error estimates are proven for semi- and full…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Tim Binz , Balázs Kovács

We introduce action-driven flows for causal variational principles, being a class of non-convex variational problems emanating from applications in fundamental physics. In the compact setting, H\"older continuous curves of measures are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Felix Finster , Franz Gmeineder

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

We study a generalized mean curvature flow involving a positive power of the mean curvature and a driving force. In this paper, we first construct all kinds of radially symmetric translating solutions, and then select one of them to satisfy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Bendong Lou , Lixia Yuan

Mean curvature flow evolves isometrically immersed base manifolds $M$ in the direction of their mean curvatures in an ambient manifold $\bar{M}$. If the base manifold $M$ is compact, the short time existence and uniqueness of the mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Bing-Long Chen , Le Yin

We investigate the evolution of open curves with fixed endpoints under the curve shortening flow, which evolves curves in proportion to their curvature. Using a distance comparison of Huisken, we determine the long-term behavior of open…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Paul T. Allen , Adam Layne , Katharine Tsukahara

Recent pre-trained text-to-image flow models have enabled remarkable progress in text-based image editing. Mainstream approaches adopt a corruption-then-restoration paradigm, where the source image is first corrupted into an editable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yanghao Wang , Zhen Wang , Long Chen

In the past, normalizing generative flows have emerged as a promising class of generative models for natural images. This type of model has many modeling advantages: the ability to efficiently compute log-likelihood of the input data, fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Alexander Kolesnikov , André Susano Pinto , Michael Tschannen

Several non-local curvature flows for plane curves with a general rotation number are discussed in this work. The types of flows include the area-preserving flow and the length-preserving flow. We have a relatively good understanding of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-16 Takeyuki Nagasawa , Kohei Nakamura

In this note we establish exponentially fast smooth convergence for global curve diffusion flows, and discuss open problems relating embeddedness to global existence (Giga's conjecture) and the shape of Type I singularities (Chou's…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Glen Wheeler

The aim in these lectures is to study singularity formation, nonuniqueness, and topological change in motion by mean curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

In this paper, we study a curve flow which preserves the anisotropic length of the evolving curve, and show that for any convex closed initial curve, the flow exists for all time and the evolving curve converges to a homothety of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Zezhen Sun

The creeping flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid in a non--uniform pore throat is investigated analytically. The analytical solution determines the flow regimes and the transition point from Newtonian to the power law flow regime. As an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-18 Hassan Fayed

In this paper, we study the convexity, interior gradient estimate, Liouville type theorem and asymptotic behavior at infinity of translating solutions to mean curvature flow as well as the nonlinear flow by powers of the mean curvature.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Changfeng Gui , Huaiyu Jian , Hongjie Ju