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We construct for every connected surface $S$ of finite negative Euler characteristic and every $H \in [0,1)$, a hyperbolic 3-manifold $N(S,H)$ of finite volume and a proper, two-sided, totally umbilic embedding $f\colon S\to N(S,H)$ with…

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It is proven that a definite graphical rotationally symmetric line congruence evolving under mean curvature flow with respect to the neutral Kaehler metric in the space of oriented lines of Euclidean 3-space, subject to suitable Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-13 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

In a recent article, a localization of the Huisken--Stampacchia iteration method was developed, and used to establish localizations of the well-known "umbilic", "convexity" and "cylindrical" estimates for hypersurfaces evolving in Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mat Langford , James McCoy

We provide explicit examples which show that mean convexity (i.e. positivity of the mean curvature) and positivity of the scalar curvature are non-preserved curvature conditions for hypersurfaces of the Euclidean space evolving under either…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Vicente Miquel

We study the convergence of an axially symmetric hypersurface evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

In this article, we will use the harmonic mean curvature flow to prove a new class of Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for strictly convex hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space in terms of total curvature, which is the integral of Gaussian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Ben Andrews , Yingxiang Hu , Haizhong Li

This expository paper presents the current knowledge of particular fully nonlinear curvature flows with local forcing term, so-called locally constrained curvature flows. We focus on the spherical ambient space. The flows are designed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Chuanqiang Chen , Pengfei Guan , Junfang Li , Julian Scheuer

In this paper we prove some geometric inequalities for closed surfaces in Euclidean three-space. Motivated by Gage's inequality for convex curves, we first verify that for convex surfaces the Willmore energy is bounded below by some…

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We investigate the motion of closed smooth curves that evolve in space $\mathbb{R}^3$. The governing evolutionary equation for the evolution of the curve is accompanied by a parabolic equation for the scalar quantity evaluated over the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Michal Benes , Miroslav Kolar , Daniel Sevcovic

We consider the volume preserving flow of smooth, closed and convex hypersurfaces in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^{n+1} (n\geq 2)$ with the speed given by arbitrary positive power $\alpha$ of the Gauss curvature. We prove that if the…

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

Mean curvature flow is the most natural evolution equation in extrinsic geometry, and shares many features with Hamilton's Ricci flow from intrinsic geometry. In this lecture series, I will provide an introduction to the mean curvature flow…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Robert Haslhofer

We consider embedded, smooth curves in the plane which are either closed or asymptotic to two lines. We study their behaviour under curve shortening flow with a global forcing term. Firstly, we prove an analogue to Huisken's distance…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Friederike Dittberner

In this paper, we study flows of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space, and apply them to prove geometric inequalities. In the first part of the paper, we consider volume preserving flows by a family of curvature functions including positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Ben Andrews , Xuzhong Chen , Yong Wei

We prove an existence and uniqueness theorem about spherical helicoidal (in particular, rotational) surfaces with prescribed mean or Gaussian curvature in terms of a continuous function depending on the distance to its axis. As an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Ildefonso Castro , Ildefonso Castro-Infantes , Jesús Castro-Infantes

The evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface driven by both mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface is formulated into a system, which couples the velocity law not only to the surface partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Balázs Kovács , Buyang Li , Christian Lubich

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

This paper aims at building a unified framework to deal with a wide class of local and nonlocal translation-invariant geometric flows. First, we introduce a class of generalized curvatures, and prove the existence and uniqueness for the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione

We investigate the formation of singularities for surfaces evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. For axially symmetric flows - surfaces of revolution - in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with Neumann boundary conditions, we prove that the first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

In this work we study the affine principal lines of surfaces in 3-space. We consider the binary differential equation of the affine curvature lines and obtain the topological models of these curves near the affine umbilic points (elliptic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Martín Barajas S. , Marcos Craizer , Ronaldo Garcia

We describe local similarities and global differences between minimal surfaces in Euclidean 3-space and constant mean curvature 1 surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space. We also describe how to solve global period problems for constant mean…

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