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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

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

This is a contribution to the program of dynamical approach to mean curvature flow initiated by Colding and Minicozzi. In this paper, we prove two main theorems. The first one is local in nature and the second one is global. In this first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Ao Sun , Jinxin Xue

We show that for certain one-parameter families of initial conditions in $\mathbb R^3$, when we run mean curvature flow, a genus one singularity must appear in one of the flows. Moreover, such a singularity is robust under perturbation of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Adrian Chun-Pong Chu , Ao Sun

In this paper, for a given compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric and a symmetric tensor, we establish the short-time existence and uniqueness theorem for extension of cross curvature flow. We give an example of this flow on…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Shahroud Azami

Does three-dimensional incompressible Euler flow with smooth initial conditions develop a singularity with infinite vorticity after a finite time? This blowup problem is still open. After briefly reviewing what is known and pointing out…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Frisch , T. Matsumoto , J. Bec

We introduce the mean curvature flow of curves in the Minkowski plane $\mathbf R^{1,1}$ and give a classification of all the self-similar solutions. In addition, we describe five other exact solutions to the flow.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Hoeskuldur P. Halldorsson

In 1994, Vel\'{a}zquez constructed a countable family of complete hypersurfaces flowing in $\mathbb{R}^{2N}$ $(N\geq 4)$ by mean curvature, each of which develops a type II singularity at the origin in finite time. Later Guo and Sesum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Zichang Liu

Shrinkers are special solutions of mean curvature flow (MCF) that evolve by rescaling and model the singularities. While there are infinitely many in each dimension, [CM1] showed that the only generic are round cylinders $\SS^k\times…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Tobias Holck Colding , Tom Ilmanen , William P. Minicozzi

We study some properties of mean curvature flow solitons in general Riemannian manifolds and in warped products, with emphasis on constant curvature and Schwarzschild type spaces. We focus on splitting and rigidity results under various…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Giulio Colombo , Luciano Mari , Marco Rigoli

In this paper, we classify all noncollapsed singularities of the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^4$. Specifically, we prove that any ancient noncollapsed solution either is one of the classical historical examples (namely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Kyeongsu Choi , Robert Haslhofer

A special formula for the total mean curvature of an ovaloid is derived. This formula allows us to extend the notion of the mean curvature to the class of boundaries of strictly convex sets. Moreover, some integral formula for ovaloids is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Katarzyna Charytanowicz , Waldemar Cieslak , Witold Mozgawa

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

In this article we extend an unknottedness theorem for compact self shrinkers to the mean curvature flow to shrinkers with one asymptotically conical end, which conjecturally comprises the entire set of self shrinkers with finite topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Alexander Mramor

We consider a flow by powers of Gauss curvature under the obstruction that the flow cannot penetrate a prescribed region, so called an obstacle. For all dimensions and positive powers, we prove the optimal curvature bounds of solutions and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Ki-Ahm Lee , Taehun Lee

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

We consider ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ ($n \geq 3$) that are weakly convex, uniformly two-convex, and satisfy derivative estimates $|\nabla A| \leq \gamma_1 |H|^2, |\nabla^2 A| \leq \gamma_2 |H|^3$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Keaton Naff

We introduce a level-set formulation for the mean curvature flow with obstacles and show existence and uniqueness of a viscosity solution. These results generalize a well known viscosity approach for the mean curvature flow without obstacle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Gwenael Mercier

We show how to use the arguments of [CM2] to get a stronger effective version of uniqueness of blowups that has a number of consequences.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

In this paper we prove uniform regularity estimates for the normalized Gauss curvature flow in higher dimensions. The convergence of solutions in $C^\infty$-topology to a smooth strictly convex soliton as $t$ approaches to infinity is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Pengfei Guan , Lei Ni