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We show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ avoids asymptotically conical and non-spherical compact singularities. We also show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed low-entropy hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

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

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

It is shown that a hypersurface of a space form is the initial data for a solution to the mean curvature flow by parallel hypersurfaces if, and only if, it is isoparametric. By solving an ordinary differential equation, explicit solutions…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Hiuri Fellipe Santos dos Reis , Keti Tenenblat

A mean curvature flow starting from a closed embedded hypersurface in $R^{n+1}$ must develop singularities. We show that if the flow has only generic singularities, then the space-time singular set is contained in finitely many compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We show that the intrinsic diameter of mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$ is uniformly bounded as one approaches the first singular time $T$. This confirms the bounded diameter conjecture of Haslhofer. In addition, we establish several…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Yiqi Huang , Wenshuai Jiang

We prove that sufficiently low-entropy closed hypersurfaces can be perturbed so that their mean curvature flow encounters only spherical and cylindrical singularities. Our theorem applies to all closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

This paper investigates geometric properties and well-posedness of a mean curvature flow with volume-dependent forcing. With the class of forcing which bounds the volume of the evolving set away from zero and infinity, we show that a strong…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Inwon Kim , Dohyun Kwon

From the perspective of Morse theory, it is natural to investigate gradient flow trajectories between critical points. In this short note, we explore the minimal hypersurface analogue of this phenomenon and present examples that suggest…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Jingwen Chen , Pedro Gaspar

In this paper we will discuss how one may be able to use mean curvature flow to tackle some of the central problems in topology in 4-dimensions. We will be concerned with smooth closed 4-manifolds that can be smoothly embedded as a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-08-30 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi , Erik Kjaer Pedersen

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

We prove Ilmanen's resolution of point singularities conjecture by establishing short-time smoothness of the level set flow of a smooth hypersurface with isolated conical singularities. This shows how the mean curvature flow evolves through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Otis Chodosh , J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Felix Schulze

We provide a self-contained treatment of set-theoretic subsolutions to flow by mean curvature, or, more generally, to flow by mean curvature plus an ambient vector field. The ambient space can be any smooth Riemannian manifold. Most…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Or Hershkovits , Brian White

We first demonstrate that the area preserving mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in space forms exists for all time and converges exponentially fast to a round sphere if the integral of the traceless second fundamental form is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Yaoting Gui , Yuqiao Li , Jun Sun

A possible evolution of a compact hypersurface in R^n by mean curvature past singularities is defined via the level set flow. In the case that the initial hypersurface has positive mean curvature, we show that the Brakke flow associated to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jan Metzger , Felix Schulze

We introduce a geometric evolution equation of hyperbolic type, which governs the evolution of a hypersurface moving in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The flow stems from a geometrically natural action containing kinetic and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-12-04 Philippe G. LeFloch , Knut Smoczyk

We prove that if the initial hypersurface of the mean curvature flow in spheres satisfies a sharp pinching condition, then the solution of the flow converges to a round point or a totally geodesic sphere. Our result improves the famous…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Li Lei , Hongwei Xu

We study the obstacle problem associated to mean curvature flow. We add to the geometric vanishing-viscosity approximation of Evans and Spruck a singular perturbation that penalizes the violation of the constraint, and pass to the limit.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Tim Laux , Keisuke Takasao

We prove a short time existence result for a system consisting of a geometric evolution equation for a hypersurface and a parabolic equation on this evolving hypersurface. More precisely, we discuss a mean curvature flow scaled with a term…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Helmut Abels , Felicitas Bürger , Harald Garcke