The notion of a generalized harmonic inverse mean curvature surface in the Euclidean four-space is introduced. A backward Bäcklund transform of a generalized harmonic inverse mean curvature surface is defined. A Darboux transform of a generalized harmonic inverse mean curvature surface is constructed by a backward Bäck…
Study constructs solutions for evolving hypersurfaces using inverse spacetime mean curvature.
problem Evolution of hypersurfaces in spacetime.
method Weak solutions for hypersurfaces evolving along inverse spacetime mean curvature in asymptotically flat maximal initial data sets.
result Weak solution detects both future- and past-trapped apparent horizons.
Proves existence of proper solutions for inverse mean curvature flow.
problem Existence of proper solutions for inverse mean curvature flow.
method Proves existence theorem assuming non-degeneracy conditions on isoperimetric profile.
result No curvature assumption in existence theorem.
Proves higher regularity for anisotropic inverse mean curvature flow.
problem Higher regularity of solutions to anisotropic inverse mean curvature flow.
method Proves Harnack estimate and constructs smooth solutions from C1 initial sets. result Smooth solutions become smooth outside a compact set.
Study inverse curvature flows for capillary hypersurfaces in a unit ball.
problem Understanding the behavior of capillary hypersurfaces under inverse curvature flows.
method Investigate inverse curvature flows for strictly convex, capillary hypersurfaces in the unit Euclidean ball.
result Establish existence and convergence results for inverse curvature flows.
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.
3D metrics get scalar curvature bounds via IMCF.
problem Bounding scalar curvature for C0 metrics. method Inverse Mean Curvature Flow (IMCF) and Hawking mass monotonicity.
result Stability theorem for nonnegative scalar curvature.
Study solves Gel'fand's inverse problem in non-smooth spaces with Ricci curvature bounds.
problem Determining a Riemannian manifold from heat kernel on subsets.
method Analyzes mRCD(K,N) spaces with synthetic Ricci curvature bounds. result Unique solvability of Gel'fand's inverse problem for compact mRCD(K,N) spaces. New flow expands hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space, showing round limiting shape for certain powers.
problem Understanding the limiting shape of hypersurfaces expanding in hyperbolic space.
method Introduced shifted inverse curvature flow with positive power p for a smooth curvature function. result For 0<p≤1, limiting shape is always round as maximal existence time is approached. The flow of a torus by inverse mean curvature keeps total curvature bounded until singularity.
problem Understanding the behavior of a torus under inverse mean curvature flow until singularity.
method Analyzing the evolution of a rotationally symmetric embedded torus in R3 by inverse mean curvature flow. result The total curvature remains bounded until the singular time Tmax. Inverts operator on hyperbolic surfaces, constructing invariant distributions.
problem Constructing explicit inversion formula for X-ray normal operator.
method First, inversion formula for attenuated normal operator on Poincaré disk and closed hyperbolic surfaces. Then, explicit construction of invariant distributions.
result Explicit construction of invariant distributions with prescribed pushforward.
New findings on mesh group-planes validate Signature-inverse Theorem under specific conditions.
problem Invalidity of existing inverse theorems for mesh group-planes.
method Classification of three and five point meshes, analysis of joint invariant signatures.
result Valid conditions for the Signature-inverse Theorem in mesh group-planes.
The paper studies a flow of Legendre curves, generalizing the inverse curvature flow of regular curves.
problem Analyzing the inverse curvature flow of Legendre curves.
method Investigates the unique existence, monotonicity, and asymptotic behavior of the flow.
result The flow asymptotically converges to a self-similar solution, categorized by initial curve.
The paper proves new Minkowski inequalities for flows in warped spaces.
problem Proving new Minkowski inequalities for flows in warped spaces.
method Locally constrained inverse curvature flows in Riemannian warped spaces.
result New Minkowski inequalities are derived for flows in warped spaces.
The paper proves existence and growth estimates for inverse mean curvature flow and related p-Laplacian Green kernel decay.
problem Existence and growth estimates for inverse mean curvature flow.
method Proving new decay estimates for the Green kernel of the p-Laplacian. result Existence and optimal growth estimates for the weak inverse mean curvature flow.
The paper studies Möbius inversion on surfaces in Minkowski 3-space.
problem Understanding transformations of surfaces in Minkowski space.
method Definition and properties of Möbius inversion on surfaces in Minkowski 3-space.
result Möbius inversion preserves lines of principal curvature and degenerate metric points but not parabolic sets.
Paper proves stability of quermassintegral inequalities using inverse curvature flow.
problem Stability of quermassintegral inequalities for nearly spherical sets.
method Inverse curvature flow with special rescaling to study quermassintegral inequalities.
result Decreasing rate of k-th quermassintegral is faster than Fraenkel asymmetry for nearly spherical sets.
We consider inverse curvature flows in hyperbolic space with starshaped initial hypersurface, driven by positive powers of a homogeneous curvature function. The solutions exist for all time and, after rescaling, converge to a sphere.
In this paper, we first study the behavior of inverse mean curvature flow in Schwarzschild manifold. We show that if the initial hypersurface Σ is strictly mean convex and star-shaped, then the flow hypersurface Σt converges to a large coordinate sphere as t→∞ exponentially. We also describe an a…
New boundary condition for weak inverse mean curvature flow in bounded domains.
problem Addressing the well-posedness of inverse mean curvature flow in bounded domains with an outer obstacle.
method Developed a new boundary condition, combined techniques including elliptic regularization, blow-up analysis, and parabolic estimates.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for weak solutions in smooth bounded domains, with C1,α regularity of level sets up to the obstacle. Geometric framework for inverse problems using foliations and dual connections.
problem Reconstruction problems in inverse problems.
method Vaisman foliations and Atiyah--Molino sequences to induce transverse foliations and dual connections.
result Unique, path-independent reconstruction with vanishing torsion and curvature duality.
We give a family of monotone quantities along smooth solutions to the inverse curvature flows in Euclidean spaces. We also derive a related geometric inequality for closed hypersurfaces with positive k-th mean curvature.
We consider the inverse mean curvature flow in Robertson-Walker spacetimes that satisfy the Einstein equations and have a big crunch singularity and prove that under natural conditions the rescaled inverse mean curvature flow provides a smooth transition from big crunch to big bang. We also construct an example showing…
In this paper we introduce the notion of timelike surface with harmonic inverse mean curvature in 3-dimensional Lorentzian space forms, and study their fundamental properties.
In this paper, we study self-expanding solutions to a large class of parabolic inverse curvature flows by homogeneous symmetric functions of principal curvatures in Euclidean spaces. These flows include the inverse mean curvature flow and many nonlinear flows in the literature. We first show that the only compact self-…
We consider the inverse curvature flows in the anti-de Sitter-Schwarzschild manifold with star-shaped initial hypersurface, driven by the 1-homogeneous curvature function. We show that the solutions exist for all time and the principle curvatures of the hypersurface converges to 1 exponentially fast.
In this note, we give a generalization of the inversion formulas of Pestov-Uhlmann for the geodesic ray transform of functions and vector fields on simple 2-dimensional manifolds of constant curvature. The inversion formulas given here hold for 2-dimensional simple manifolds whose curvatures close to a constant.
In this paper, we obtain a complete list of all self-similar solutions of inverse mean curvature flow in R2.
Unified view of monotonicity formulas for inverse mean curvature flow and p-capacitary potentials.
problem Understanding monotonicity formulas for various geometric flows and potentials.
method Refined analysis of p-capacitary potentials and their level sets. result Strong convergence of p-capacitary potentials to inverse mean curvature flow and curvature varifolds. The paper studies area-preserving and length-preserving inverse curvature flow for planar curves with singularities.
problem Investigating the evolution of planar curves with singularities under area-preserving and length-preserving inverse curvature flow.
method Area-preserving and length-preserving inverse curvature flow for ℓ-convex Legendre curves. result The flow results in a circle for ℓ-convex Legendre curves, providing geometric inequalities. Curvature flow and inverse curvature flow solutions on 2D light cone identified.
problem Identifying self-similar solutions to curvature flow and inverse curvature flow on 2D light cone.
method Proved correspondence between CF and ICF solutions, analyzed ellipses and hyperboles, and characterized self-similar solutions.
result Ellipses and hyperboles are the only curves evolving under homotheties on the 2D light cone.
Study on curvature flow in Minkowski space for cocompact hypersurfaces.
problem Investigating curvature flow in Minkowski space for cocompact hypersurfaces.
method Investigation of the cocompact inverse \(σ_k\) curvature flow in Minkowski space.
result Longtime existence and convergence of the curvature flow established.
The central object of study of this thesis is inverse mean curvature vector flow of two-dimensional surfaces in four-dimensional spacetimes. Being a system of forward-backward parabolic PDEs, inverse mean curvature vector flow equation lacks a general existence theory. Our main contribution is proving that there exist …
It has been known in that round spheres are the only closed homothetic self-similar solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow and parabolic curvature flows by degree -1 homogeneous functions of principle curvatures in the Euclidean space. In this article, we prove that the round sphere is rigid in much stronger sens…
Inverse curvature flows shape star-shaped hypersurfaces into spheres.
problem Evolution of star-shaped hypersurfaces inside a convex cone.
method Inverse curvature flows, convexity of the cone, gradient and Hölder estimates.
result Hypersurfaces converge to a round sphere as time goes to infinity.
The paper classifies ruled surfaces in a specific space that move in a special way.
problem Understanding how surfaces move in a special space.
method Classifying ruled surfaces as translating solitons of inverse mean curvature flow.
result Existence of non-cylindrical ruled translating solitons.
We construct a solution to inverse mean curvature flow on an asymptotically hyperbolic 3-manifold which does not have the convergence properties needed in order to prove a Penrose--type inequality. This contrasts sharply with the asymptotically flat case. The main idea consists in combining inverse mean curvature flow …
Constructs hyperspheres with prescribed mean curvature in Euclidean space.
problem Creating hyperspheres with a specific curvature in Euclidean space.
method Constructs families of smooth functions to fill Euclidean space with hyperspheres of prescribed mean curvature.
result Euclidean space can be filled with hyperspheres of prescribed mean curvature.
In [8] Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a mean curvature barrier condition and the timelike convergence condition. Further…
Study flow on de Sitter space for convex hypersurfaces.
problem Behavior of locally constrained inverse curvature flow in de Sitter space.
method Analyze flow on de Sitter space with specific initial conditions and inequalities.
result Derive Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities.
By making use of the nice behavior of Hawking masses of slices of a weak solution of inverse mean curvature flow in three dimensional asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds, we are able to show that each slice of the flow is star-shaped after a long time, and then we get the regularity of the weak solution of inverse mean…
The paper classifies shapes of translating solitons for a specific flow.
problem Understanding the shapes of translating solitons in a specific flow.
method Analyzing functions on a unit sphere and solving an ODE.
result Classification of the shapes of translating solitons.
New proof shows 3-manifolds with Ricci curvature bound are either flat or grow non-Euclidean.
problem Proving properties of 3-manifolds with Ricci curvature bounds.
method Inverse mean curvature flow approach.
result Proves that 3-manifolds are either flat or have non-Euclidean volume growth.
Proves uniqueness of geometric flow in various Riemannian manifolds.
problem Proving uniqueness of geometric flow in general Riemannian manifolds.
method Two backward uniqueness theorems for extrinsic geometric flow.
result Backward uniqueness of extrinsic geometric flow in general ambient manifolds.
We show that strictly convex surfaces expanding by the inverse Gauss curvature flow converge to infinity in finite time. After appropriate rescaling, they converge to spheres. We describe the algorithm to find our main test function.
This note revisits the inverse mean curvature flow in the 3-dimensional hyperbolic space. In particular, we show that the limiting shape is not necessarily round after scaling, thus resolving an inconsistency in the literature.
We prove new pinching estimate for the inverse curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces in the space form N of constant sectional curvature KN with speed given by F−α, where α∈(0,1] for KN=0,−1 and α=1 for KN=1, F is a smooth, symmetric homogeneous of degree one function which is inverse…
Study of curve evolution in 2D space forms converging to a circle.
problem Understanding curve evolution in 2D space forms.
method Inverse curvature flow with normal speed defined by weighted inverse curvature and support function.
result Solutions exist for all time and converge exponentially to a standard round geodesic circle.