Stability of translating solutions to mean curvature flow

We prove stability of rotationally symmetric translating solutions to mean curvature flow. For initial data that converge spatially at infinity to such a soliton, we obtain convergence for large times to that soliton without imposing any decay rates. The authors are members of SFB 647/B3 “Raum – Zeit – Materie: Singularity Structure, Long-time Behaviour and Dynamics of Solutions of Non-linear Evolution Equations”.     

Mean curvature flow with a forcing term in minkowski space

We study the forced mean curvature flow of graphs in Minkowski space and prove longtime existence of solutions. When the forcing term is a constant, we prove convergence to either a constant mean curvature hypersurface or a translating soliton – depending on the boundary conditions at infinity. It is a pleasure to thank my PhD advisors Klaus Ecker and Gerhard Huisken for their assistance and encouragement. I also thank Maria Athanassenas, Oliver Schnürrer and Marty Ross for their interest and useful comments, and the Max Planck Gesellschaft for financial support.     

On mean curvature flow of singular Riemannian foliations: Noncompact cases

In this paper we investigate the mean curvature flow (MCF) of a regular leaf of a closed generalized isoparametric foliation as initial datum, generalizing previous results of Radeschi and the first author. We show that, under bounded curvature conditions, any finite time singularity is a singular leaf, and the singularity is of type I. The new techniques also allow us to discuss the existence of basins of attraction, how cylinder structures can affect convergence of basic MCF of immersed submanifolds and assure convergence of MCF of non-closed leaves of generalized isoparametric foliation on compact manifold.     

The nature of singularities in mean curvature flow of mean-convex sets

This paper analyzes the singular behavior of the mean curvature flow generated by the boundary of the compact mean-convex region of or of an -dimensional riemannian manifold. If , the moving boundary is shown to be very nearly convex in a spacetime neighborhood of any singularity. In particular, the tangent flows at singular points are all shrinking spheres or shrinking cylinders. If , the same results are shown up to the first time that singularities occur.

     

Solutions for the prescribing mean curvature equation

By variational methods, for a kind of Yamabe problem whose scalar curvature vanishes in the unit ball BN and on the boundary S^N-1 the mean curvature is prescribed, we construct multi-peak solutions whose maxima are located on the boundary as the parameter tends to 0^＋ under certain assumptions. We also obtain the asymptotic behaviors of the solutions.     

Non-preserved curvature conditions under constrained mean curvature flows

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 the volume- or the area preserving mean curvature flow. The relevance of our examples is that they disprove some statements of the previous literature, overshadow a widespread folklore conjecture about the behaviour of these flows and bring out the discouraging news that a traditional singularity analysis is not possible for constrained versions of the mean curvature flow.     

The size of the singular set in mean curvature flow of mean-convex sets

We prove that when a compact mean-convex subset of (or of an -dimensional riemannian manifold) moves by mean-curvature, the spacetime singular set has parabolic hausdorff dimension at most . Examples show that this is optimal. We also show that, as , the surface converges to a compact stable minimal hypersurface whose singular set has dimension at most . If , the convergence is everywhere smooth and hence after some time , the moving surface has no singularities

     

Convex mean curvature flow with a forcing term in direction of the position vector

A smooth, compact and strictly convex hypersurface evolving in ℝ ⁿ⁺¹ along its mean curvature vector plus a forcing term in the direction of its position vector is studied in this paper. We show that the convexity is preserving as the case of mean curvature flow, and the evolving convex hypersurfaces may shrink to a point in finite time if the forcing term is small, or exist for all time and expand to infinity if it is large enough. The flow can converge to a round sphere if the forcing term satisfies suitable conditions which will be given in the paper. Long-time existence and convergence of normalization of the flow are also investigated.     

Self-similar solutions to the hyperbolic mean curvature flow

This article concerns the self-similar solutions to the hyperbolic mean curvature flow (HMCF) for plane curves, which is proposed by Kong, Liu, and Wang and relates to an earlier proposal for general flows by LeFloch and Smoczyk. We prove that all curves immersed in the plane which move in a self-similar manner under the HMCF are straight lines and circles. Moreover, it is found that a circle can either expand to a larger one and then converge to a point, or shrink directly and converge to a point, where the curvature approaches to infinity.     

Constant mean curvature surfaces and mean curvature flow with non-zero Neumann boundary conditions on strictly convex domains

In this paper, we study nonparametric surfaces over strictly convex bounded domains in ${\mathbb{R}}^n$, which are evolving by the mean curvature flow with Neumann boundary value. We prove that solutions converge to the ones moving only by translation. And we will prove the existence and uniqueness of the constant mean curvature equation with Neumann boundary value on strictly convex bounded domains.     

On an extension of the H k mean curvature flow

In this note,we generalize an extension theorem in [Le-Sesum] and [Xu-Ye-Zhao] of the mean curvature flow to the Hk mean curvature flow under some extra conditions.The main difficulty in proving the extension theorem is to find a suitable version of Michael-Simon inequality for the Hk mean curvature flow,and to do a suitable Moser iteration process.These two problems are overcome by imposing some extra conditions which may be weakened or removed in our forthcoming paper.On the other hand,we derive some estimates for the generalized mean curvature flow,which have their own interesting.     

Total mean curvature of positively curved hypersurfaces

In this article, we prove that every positively curved, complete non-compact hypersurface in Rn has infinite total mean curvature.     

Estimate for evolutionary surfaces of prescribed mean curvature and the convergence

In the paper, we will discuss the gradient estimate for the evolutionary surfaces of prescribed mean curvature with Neumann boundary value under the condition $f_\tau\ge -\kappa$, which is the same as the one in the interior estimate by K. Ecker and generalizes the condition $f_\tau\ge 0$ studied by Gerhardt etc. Also, based on the elliptic result obtained recently, we will show the longtime behavior of surfaces moving by the velocity being equal to the mean curvature.     

Entire radial solutions of elliptic systems and inequalities of the mean curvature type

In this paper we study first nonexistence of radial entire solutions of elliptic systems of the mean curvature type with a singular or degenerate diffusion depending on the solution u. In particular we extend a previous result given in [R. Filippucci, Nonexistence of radial entire solutions of elliptic systems, J. Differential Equations 188 (2003) 353-389]. Moreover, in the scalar case we obtain nonexistence of all entire solutions, radial or not, of differential inequalities involving again operators of the mean curvature type and a diffusion term. We prove that in the scalar case, nonexistence of entire solutions is due to the explosion of the derivative of every nonglobal radial solution in the right extremum of the maximal interval of existence, while in that point the solution is bounded. This behavior is qualitatively different with respect to what happens for the m-Laplacian operator, studied in [R. Filippucci, Nonexistence of radial entire solutions of elliptic systems, J. Differential Equations 188 (2003) 353-389], where nonexistence of entire solutions is due, even in the vectorial case, to the explosion in norm of the solution at a finite point. Our nonexistence theorems for inequalities extend previous results given by Naito and Usami in [Y. Naito, H. Usami, Entire solutions of the inequality div(A(|Du|)Du)?f(u), Math. Z. 225 (1997) 167-175] and Ghergu and Radulescu in [M. Ghergu, V. Radulescu, Existence and nonexistence of entire solutions to the logistic differential equation, Abstr. Appl. Anal. 17 (2003) 995-1003].     

On symplectic mean curvature flows

In this paper we review all the main known results about mean curvature flows with initial surfaces symplectic in a Kähler-Einstein surface, including published results and new results obtained recently. We also propose some problems that we think are very interesting.     

Rigidity and mean curvature flow via harmonic Gauss maps

We investigate properties of harmonic Gauss maps and their applications to Lawson-Osserman’s problem, to the rigidity of space-like submanifolds in a pseudo-Euclidean space and to the mean curvature flow.