Foundations for free boundary Brakke flows established.
problem Analyzing free boundary flows through singularities
method Introducing unit-regular and cyclic free boundary flows, proving avoidance principle, and introducing inner and outer flows.
result General tools for analyzing free boundary flows through singularities.
The paper introduces combinatorial Calabi flows to find hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of given lengths.
method Introducing combinatorial Calabi flows and proving their long time existence and global convergence.
result Proves the long time existence and global convergence of combinatorial Calabi flow on surfaces with boundary.
Classifies ancient flows in a disc with boundary.
problem Ancient convex flows in a disc with boundary.
method Classifies flows using curve shortening.
result Ancient convex flows in a disc are classified.
We develop the notion of Brakke flow with free-boundary in a barrier surface. Unlike the classical free-boundary mean curvature flow, the free-boundary Brakke flow must "pop" upon tangential contact with the barrier. We prove a compactness theorem for free-boundary Brakke flows, define a Gaussian monotonicity formula v…
The paper studies Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary, proving existence, uniqueness, and boundary conditions preservation.
problem Ricci flow on manifolds with boundary.
method Proving short-time existence and uniqueness of the solution, and showing boundary conditions preservation.
result The flow preserves natural boundary conditions under certain curvature conditions.
Study resolves flow through cylindrical singularities, proving nonfattening.
problem Analyzing free boundary flow through cylindrical singularities.
method Foundational results for free boundary Brakke flows and classification of ancient flows.
result Proves all cylindrical singularities have a mean-convex neighborhood, leading to well-posed flow.
Unique ancient convex flow in a ball with free boundary found.
problem Classifying convex ancient free boundary mean curvature flows in the ball.
method Proof of existence and uniqueness in every dimension.
result A unique (modulo rotations and translations) convex ancient mean curvature flow found.
Proves existence of mean curvature flow with surgery for free boundary surfaces.
problem Existence of mean curvature flow with free boundary.
method New approach for flows with surgery in free boundary setting.
result Flow converges to stable minimal surfaces without surgeries for large t.
Study on curve shortening flow with boundary conditions, proving convergence or contraction.
problem Analyzing curve shortening flow with free boundaries.
method Introduced a reflected chord-arc profile and obtained chord-arc estimates.
result Proved that flows either converge to a critical chord or contract to a round half-point.
We introduce Lagrangian mean curvature flow with boundary in Calabi--Yau manifolds by defining a natural mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary condition, and prove that under this flow, the Lagrangian condition is preserved. We also study in detail the flow of equivariant Lagrangian discs with boundary on the Lawlor neck an…
The study derives formulas for functionals on surface with boundary under harmonic Ricci flow.
problem Understanding functionals along harmonic Ricci flow on surfaces with boundaries.
method Derivation of formulas for functionals under harmonic Ricci flow.
result Established formulas for functionals on surface with boundary.
Study of Ricci flow convergence on surfaces with boundary.
problem Convergence of singular solutions to Ricci flow on compact surfaces with boundary.
method Subsequential convergence analysis of Ricci flow with prescribed geodesic curvature.
result Convergence does not depend on the sign of geodesic curvature of the boundary in the case of rotational symmetry.
Inverse mean curvature flow converges to a disk in hyperbolic space.
problem Understanding flow behavior in hyperbolic geometry.
method Inverse mean curvature flow with free boundary on geodesic spheres.
result Flow converges to a totally geodesic disk.
The paper finds hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with boundary using combinatorial curvature flows.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of prescribed lengths.
method Introducing combinatorial Ricci flow and combinatorial Calabi flow for generalized circle packings.
result Proves longtime existence and global convergence of combinatorial curvature flows.
Study curve shortening flow in high dimensions with boundary constraints.
problem Understanding the behavior of curves in high-dimensional spaces with boundary conditions.
method Used curvature and higher-derivative estimates, Stahl-type maximum principle, and blow-up analysis.
result Flow converges to a shrinking semicircle model or has only semicircle boundary singularities in low entropy regimes.
This paper studies the combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic surfaces with boundary. It is proved by applying a variational principle that the length of boundary components is uniquely determined by the combinatorial conformal factor. The combinatorial Yamabe flow is a gradient flow of a concave function. The long ti…
Study of flow in hyperbolic space with capillary boundary.
problem Optimizing hypersurfaces with capillary boundary in hyperbolic space.
method Mean curvature flow with capillary boundary, preserving volume and energy.
result Flow converges to a truncated umbilical hypersurface.
We show for a non homogeneous boundary value problem for the Ricci flow on the disk that when the initial metric has positive curvature and the boundary is convex then the initial metric is deformed, via the normalized flow and along sequences of times, to a metric of constant curvature and totally geodesic boundary. W…
Novel boundary conditions for Ricci flow to deform compact manifolds.
problem Deforming compact Riemannian manifolds with boundary using Ricci flow.
method Proposed boundary conditions that make first variations of functionals (Einstein-Hilbert action, lambda-functional) without boundary terms.
result Proof of short-term existence of solutions under proposed conditions.
Study curves evolving on hypersurfaces with free boundaries, preserving length.
problem Evolution of curves on hypersurfaces with free boundaries.
method Nonlocal evolution equation with nonlinear boundary conditions, short-time existence, uniqueness, and parabolic energy estimates.
result Global existence and convergence to critical points proved.
Classifies ancient convex curves in convex domains.
problem Ancient convex curve shortening flows on convex domains.
method Classification of convex ancient solutions.
result Ancient convex curves in convex domains classified.
Study proves existence of a specific type of flow in geometry.
problem Existence of canonical multi-phase free boundary Brakke flows.
method Global-in-time existence established using Brakke flow and uniform density ratio assumption.
result Existence of the flow with no positive mass on the free boundary for some short time.
Develops weak formulation for spacelike flows in pseudo-Euclidean space.
problem Weak formulation of spacelike mean curvature flow in pseudo-Euclidean space.
method Based on spacelike integer rectifiable varifolds and pseudo-Euclidean first variation.
result Existence and compactness of spacelike Brakke flows with fixed boundary.
Paper solves local well-posedness for Schrödinger flow into sphere with natural boundary conditions.
problem Local well-posedness of Schrödinger flow into S2 with natural boundary conditions. method Developed a new approximation scheme to solve the problem.
result Solved the local well-posedness problem for the Schrödinger flow into S2 with natural boundary conditions. Paper studies flow on hyperbolic surfaces to match boundary lengths.
problem Matching boundary lengths of hyperbolic surfaces.
method Combinatorial Yamabe flow on hyperbolic bordered surfaces.
result Flow converges exponentially to a surface with equal boundary lengths.
Study a flow in a ball that preserves volume and converges to spherical caps.
problem Preserving volume in a flow with a capillary boundary.
method Mean curvature flow with capillary boundary.
result The flow has longtime existence and converges to spherical caps.
Solves curve migration problem with elastic flows.
problem Curve migration problem with natural boundary conditions.
method Constructing migrating elastic flows.
result Extends previous work to purely local flow.
Paper proves Luo's conjecture for 3D triangulated manifolds.
problem Finding hyperbolic metrics on compact 3-manifolds with boundary.
method Introduced and extended combinatorial Ricci flow to handle singularities.
result Proved Luo's conjecture affirmatively for ideal triangulations.
Study ancient solutions to free boundary mean curvature flow in convex manifolds.
problem Understanding ancient solutions to free boundary mean curvature flow in convex manifolds.
method Establish rigidity results and construct foliations to describe ancient solutions.
result Ancient solutions to free boundary mean curvature flow are rigid and exhaust all possibilities under certain conditions.
This paper demonstrates existence for all time of mean curvature flow in Minkowski space with a perpendicular Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary manifold is a convex cone and the flowing manifold is initially spacelike. Using a blowdown argument, we show that under renormalisation this flow converges toward…
In this paper, we present our general results about traversing flows on manifolds with boundary in the context of the flows on surfaces with boundary. We take advantage of the relative simplicity of 2D-worlds to explain and popularize our approach to the Morse theory on smooth manifolds with boundary, in which the bo…
Study shows Brakke flow's non-triviality for smooth boundaries in codimension 1.
problem Understanding Brakke flow's non-triviality for smooth boundaries in codimension 1.
method Analyzing spacetime Brakke flow constructed by Buet et al. for initial varifolds.
result Support of mass measure of spacetime Brakke flow coincides with classical mean curvature flow's support.
Study heat flow for half-harmonic maps and harmonic maps with free boundary.
problem Integrability and regularity of half-harmonic maps and harmonic maps with free boundary.
method Introduced a heat flow associated to half-harmonic maps and constructed weak solutions via Ginzburg-Landau approximation.
result Proved partial regularity of weak solutions in space and time.
Study of star-shaped hypersurfaces with capillary boundary using constrained mean curvature flow.
problem Understanding the evolution of hypersurfaces with capillary boundaries.
method Locally constrained mean curvature flow for star-shaped hypersurfaces in the half-space.
result Established new Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for convex hypersurfaces with capillary boundary.
We study the short-time existence and regularity of solutions to a boundary value problem for the Ricci-DeTurck equation on a manifold with boundary. Using this, we prove the short-time existence and uniqueness of the Ricci flow prescribing the mean curvature and conformal class of the boundary, with arbitrary initial …
Willmore flow converges globally for surfaces with rotational symmetry below a specific energy threshold.
problem Global existence and convergence of Willmore flow with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
method Considered surfaces with rotational symmetry, proved global existence and convergence for initial data below a sharp energy threshold.
result Sharp threshold for global existence and convergence of Willmore flow depends on boundary conditions.
The article proves a new entropy formula for surfaces with boundaries.
problem Entropy formula for surfaces with boundaries.
method Established a monotonicity formula of Hamilton type entropy.
result Entropy functional and W-functional relation studied. We consider mean curvature flow of an initial surface that is the graph of a function over some domain of definition in Rn. If the graph is not complete then we impose a constant Dirichlet boundary condition at the boundary of the surface. We establish longtime-existence of the flow and investigate the projection of…
New flow for capillary surfaces converges to spherical caps.
problem Optimizing capillary surfaces in space forms.
method Constrained mean curvature flow.
result Flow converges to spherical caps globally.
Smooth solutions up to evolving free boundaries for degenerate equations.
problem Degenerate parabolic equations with evolving free boundaries.
method Smooth short-time existence using linear degenerate equations on a fixed domain.
result Smoothness up to the free boundary for the p-Laplacian evolution equation and α-Gauss curvature flow. Study on deforming discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundaries.
problem Deforming discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundaries.
method Introduce combinatorial Ricci flow and combinatorial Calabi flow, establish longtime existence and global convergence of solutions.
result Effective algorithms for finding discrete hyperbolic metrics on surfaces with totally geodesic boundaries of prescribed lengths.
Study proves mean curvature flow in GRW spacetimes with perpendicular boundary condition.
problem Longtime existence of mean curvature flow in GRW spacetimes.
method Proved longtime existence using perpendicular Neumann boundary condition and null convergence condition.
result Metric of solution is conformal to GRW leaf's metric in asymptotic time.
In this paper we introduce a Guan-Li type volume preserving mean curvature flow for free boundary hypersurfaces in a ball. We give a concept of star-shaped free boundary hypersurfaces in a ball and show that the Guan-Li type mean curvature flow has long time existence and converges to a free boundary spherical cap, pro…
New discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary, proving global rigidity and constructing hyperbolic metrics.
problem Creating new discrete conformal structures on surfaces with boundary.
method Introducing new discrete conformal structures, proving global rigidity using variational principles, and introducing combinatorial curvature flows.
result Global rigidity of new discrete conformal structures and effective algorithms for constructing hyperbolic metrics.
Holomorphic discs converge to maximal surfaces under specific flows.
problem Understanding the evolution of holomorphic discs under mean curvature flow.
method Mean curvature flow with boundary conditions in the space of oriented lines.
result Holomorphic discs converge to Bishop filling by holomorphic discs under certain conditions.
Study shows how curved surfaces evolve smoothly to spherical shapes.
problem Evolution of curved surfaces with capillary boundaries.
method Volume-preserving curvature flow with power mean curvature speed.
result Convex initial hypersurfaces evolve to spherical caps over time.
We consider the sharp interface limit of the Allen-Cahn equation with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary conditions and give a varifold characterization of its limit which is formally a mean curvature flow with Dirichlet or dynamic boundary conditions. In order to show the existence of the limit, we apply the phase field me…
We construct maximal hypersurfaces with a Neumann boundary condition in Minkowski space via mean curvature flow. In doing this we give general conditions for long time existence of the flow with boundary conditions with assumptions on the curvature of a the Lorentz boundary manifold.