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We consider the evolution by mean curvature of smooth $n$-dimensional submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+k}$ which are compact and quadratically pinched. We will be primarily interested in flows of high codimension, the case $k\geq 2$. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Stephen Lynch , Huy The Nguyen

We prove a strong Frankel theorem for mean curvature flow shrinkers in all dimensions: Any two shrinkers in a sufficiently large ball must intersect. In particular, the shrinker itself must be connected in all large balls. The key to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

For hypersurfaces moving by standard mean curvature flow with boundary, we show that if a tangent flow at a boundary singularity is given by a smoothly embedded shrinker, then the shrinker must be non-orientable. We also show that there is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Brian White

In this paper we give sufficient conditions that guarantee the meancurvature flow with free boundary on an embedded rotationally symmetric double cone develops a Type 2 curvature singularity. We additionally prove that Type 0 singularities…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Glen Wheeler , Valentina-Mira Wheeler

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 article we study the breathers of the mean curvature flow in the Euclidean space. A breather is a solution to the mean curvature flow which repeats itself up to isometry and scaling once in a while. We prove several no breather…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Liang Cheng , Yongjia Zhang

We prove that if a rescaled mean curvature flow is a global graph over the round cylinder with small gradient and converges super-exponentially fast, then it must coincide with the cylinder itself. We also show that the result is sharp with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Yiqi Huang , Xinrui Zhao

In the last 15 years, White and Huisken-Sinestrari developed a far-reaching structure theory for the mean curvature flow of mean convex hypersurfaces. Their papers provide a package of estimates and structural results that yield a precise…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Robert Haslhofer , Bruce Kleiner

We show that the space of asymptotically conical self-expanders of the mean curvature flow is a smooth Banach manifold. An immediate consequence is that non-degenerate self-expanders -- that is, those self-expanders that admit no…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Jacob Bernstein , Lu Wang

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

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Raphael Tsiamis

We investigate the convergence of the mean curvature flow of arbitrary codimension in Riemannian manifolds with bounded geometry. We prove that if the initial submanifold satisfies a pinching condition, then along the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Entao Zhao

In [5], S\'aez and Schn\"urer studied the graphical mean curvature flow of complete hypersurfaces defined on subsets of Euclidean space. They obtained long time existence. Moreover, they provided a new interpretation of weak mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Ling Xiao

We consider the graphical mean curvature flow of maps ${\bf f}:\mathbb{R}^m\to\mathbb{R}^n$, $m\ge 2$, and derive estimates on the growth rates of the evolved graphs, based on a new version of the maximum principle for properly immersed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Andreas Savas-Halilaj , Knut Smoczyk

For each $g\ge 3$, we prove existence of a compact, connected, smoothly embedded, genus-$g$ surface $M_g$ with the following property: under mean curvature flow, there is exactly one singular point at the first singular time, and the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Tom Ilmanen , Brian White

A priori estimates for the mean curvature evolution of Killing graphs in Cartan-Hadamard manifolds with asymptotic Dirichlet conditions are established. As an application, the existence of the corresponding parabolic flow is proved,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Claudia Fernandes , Jorge de Lira , Matheus Soares

We study the existence and uniqueness of smooth mean curvature flow, in arbitrary dimension and co-dimension, emanating from so called $k$-dimensional $(\varepsilon,R)$ Reifenberg flat sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Our results generalize the ones…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-14 Or Hershkovits

We study the evolution of strictly mean-convex entire graphs over $R^n$ by Inverse Mean Curvature flow. First we establish the global existence of starshaped entire graphs with superlinear growth at infinity. The main result in this work…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-21 Panagiota Daskalopoulos , Gerhard Huisken

This paper proves that, at the first singular time for a smoothly immersed surface moving by mean curvature flow in a n-manifold, each tangent flow is given by a smooth, branched shrinker, possibly with multiplicity. If n=3 and if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

In this paper we study the blow up sequence of mean curvature flow of surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$ with additional forces. We prove that the blow up limit of a mean curvature flow of smoothly embedded surfaces with additional forces with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Ao Sun