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In this paper, we consider a family of closed hypersurfaces which shrink self-similarly with speed of quotient curvatures. We show that the only such hypersurfaces are shrinking spheres.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Li Chen , Shanze Gao

In this paper, we study the locally constrained inverse curvature flow for hypersurfaces in the half-space with $\theta$-capillary boundary, which was recently introduced by Wang-Weng-Xia. Assume that the initial hypersurface is strictly…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yingxiang Hu , Yong Wei , Bo Yang , Tailong Zhou

We consider a mean curvature flow in a cone, that is, a hypersurface in a cone which moves toward the opening with normal velocity equaling to the mean curvature, and the contact angle between the hypersurface and the cone boundary being…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Bendong Lou

In this paper we consider the evolution of sets by a fractional mean curvature flow. Our main result states that for any dimension $n > 2$, there exists an embedded surface in $\mathbb R^n$ evolving by fractional mean curvature flow, which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Eleonora Cinti , Carlo Sinestrari , Enrico Valdinoci

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

In this paper we present some results on a family of geometric flows introduced by Bourguignon that generalize the Ricci flow. For suitable values of the scalar parameter involved in these flows, we prove short time existence and provide…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Giovanni Catino , Laura Cremaschi , Zindine Djadli , Carlo Mantegazza , Lorenzo Mazzieri

Given a singular Riemannian foliation on a compact Riemannian manifold, we study the mean curvature flow equation with a regular leaf as initial datum. We prove that if the leaves are compact and the mean curvature vector field is basic,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Marcos Alexandrino , Marco Radeschi

We study a variant of the mean curvature flow for closed, convex hypersurfaces where the normal velocity is a nonhomogeneous function of the principal curvatures. We show that if the initial hypersurface satisfies a certain pinching…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-09 Tim Espin

A soliton of the mean curvature flow in the product space $\mathbb{s}^2\times\mathbb{R}$ as a surface whose mean curvature $H$ satisfies the equation $H=\langle N,X\rangle$, where $N$ is the unit normal of the surface and $X$ is a Killing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Rafael López , Marian Ioan Munteanu

We construct embedded ancient solutions to mean curvature flow related to certain classes of unstable minimal hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for $n \geq 2$. These provide examples of mean convex yet nonconvex ancient solutions that are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Alexander Mramor , Alec Payne

The goal of this paper is to relax convexity assumption on some classical results in mean curvature flow. In the first half of the paper, we prove a generalized version of Hamilton's differential Harnack inequality which holds for mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Junyoung Park

A recent article by Li and Lv considered fully nonlinear contraction of convex hypersurfaces by certain nonhomogeneous functions of curvature, showing convergence to points in finite time in cases where the speed is a function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 James McCoy

The mean curvature flow is an evolution process under which a submanifold deforms in the direction of its mean curvature vector. The hypersurface case has been much studied since the eighties. Recently, several theorems on regularity,…

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

We show the existence of a smooth solution for the flow deformed by the square root of the scalar curvature multiplied by a positive anisotropic factor $\psi$ given a strictly convex initial hypersurface in Euclidean space suitably pinched.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Hyunsuk Kang , Lami Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee

The capillary condensation for fluids into spherical nano-cavities is analyzed within the frame of two theoretical approaches. One description is based on a widely used simplified version of the droplet model formulated for studying atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ignacio Urrutia , Leszek Szybisz

Given a family of smooth immersions $F_t: M^n\to N^{n+1}$ of closed hypersurfaces in a locally symmetric Riemannian manifold $N^{n+1}$ with bounded geometry, moving by the mean curvature flow, we show that at the first finite singular time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Jia-Yong Wu

We study the Hermitian curvature flow of locally homogeneous non-K\"ahler metrics on compact complex surfaces. In particular, we characterize the long-time behavior of the solutions to the flow. We also provide the first example of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Francesco Pediconi , Mattia Pujia

This article studies the mean curvature flow of Lagrangian submanifolds. In particular, we prove the following global existence and convergence theorem: if the potential function of a Lagrangian graph in T^{2n} is convex, then the flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Knut Smoczyk , Mu-Tao Wang

In this paper, we study the flow of closed, starshaped hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ with speed $r^\alpha\sigma_2^{1/2},$ where $\sigma_2^{1/2}$ is the normalized square root of the scalar curvature, $\alpha\geq 2,$ and $r$ is the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Ling Xiao

We consider strictly convex hypersurfaces with the boundary which meets a strictly convex cone perpendicularly. We prove that if these hypersurfaces expand inside this cone, driven by the power of the Gauss curvature, then the evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Li Chen , Ni Xiang