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48 results for weak flows

Smooth flows with surgery approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.

problem Approximating weak mean curvature flows with singularities using smooth flows.
method Combining Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits and Choi-Haslhofer-Hershkovits-White work on canonical neighbourhoods and barriers to flows with surgery.
result Smooth flows with surgery can approximate weak mean curvature flows with spherical and neck-pinch singularities.

Study proves existence of weak mean curvature flow with contact angle.

problem Existence of weak mean curvature flow with prescribed contact angle.
method Compactness theorem for varifolds and Ilmanen's regularization extended to capillarity.
result Existence of weak mean curvature flow with contact angle for general θθ.

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,αC^{1,α} regularity of level sets up to the obstacle.

Study shows how weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow behaves at infinity.

problem Understanding the asymptotic behavior of anisotropic mean curvature flow.
method Established local gradient estimates for anisotropic pp-harmonic functions and weak solutions of IAMCF.
result Weak IAMCF is asymptotic to the expanding Wulff shape solution at infinity.

We prove the existence and uniqueness of the weak Kahler-Ricci flow on projective varieties with log terminal singularities. It is also shown that the weak Kahler-Ricci flow can be uniquely continued through divisorial contractions and flips if they exist. We then propose an analytic version of the Minimal Model Progra…

2009-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel weak solutions for volume-preserving mean curvature flow established.

problem Existence and uniqueness of solutions to volume-preserving mean curvature flow.
method Introducing varifold solutions coupled with phase volumes and new calibrations.
result Uniqueness of classical solutions among varifold solutions.

New varifold solutions for mean curvature flow converge and are unique.

problem Mean curvature flow and Allen-Cahn equation convergence and uniqueness.
method Evolving varifolds coupled to phase volumes, weak-strong uniqueness principle.
result Limits of Allen-Cahn solutions are varifold solutions, and classical flows are unique.

Minimal existence time for Willmore flow established for smooth and weak Lipschitz initial data.

problem Existence time of the Willmore flow for various initial conditions.
method Established minimal existence time for Willmore flow using geometric data and conservation laws.
result Minimal existence time is a function of geometric data for general weak Lipschitz initial data.

In an earlier work joint with X. X. Chen and G. Tian, we introduced the weak Kähler-Ricci flow for various geometric motivations. In the current work, we take further consideration on setting up the weak flow. Namely, the initial class is allowed to be no longer Kähler.

2009-09-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Alternative proof of weak solutions to mean curvature flow using minimizing movements.

problem Existence of weak solutions to mean curvature flow and volume preserving mean curvature flow.
method Proposes a new existence proof using a minimizing movements scheme and a novel proxy for distance.
result Unconditional convergence towards a De Giorgi solution for the minimizing movements scheme.

Surveying Ricci flow for weak lower scalar curvature bounds.

problem Creating local definitions for weak lower scalar curvature bounds for C0C^0 metrics.
method Using Ricci flow to define and analyze weak lower scalar curvature bounds.
result Properties and applications of Ricci flow in defining weak lower scalar curvature bounds.

Lipschitz regularity proved for harmonic map heat flows into CAT(0) spaces.

problem Proving Lipschitz regularity for harmonic map heat flows into CAT(0) spaces.
method Elliptic approximation method
result Every weak solution of the harmonic map heat flow into CAT(0) spaces is Lipschitz continuous in both space and time.

In this paper, we continue to study the Calabi flow on complex tori. We develop a new method to obtain an explicit bound of the curvature of the Calabi flow. As an application, we show that when n=2n=2, the Calabi flow starting from a weak Kähler metric will become smooth immediately. It implies that in our settings, th…

2016-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In this note, we prove the existence of weak solutions of the Chern-Ricci flow through blow downs of exceptional curves, as well as backwards smooth convergence away from the exceptional curves on compact complex surfaces. The smoothing property for the Chern-Ricci flow is also obtained on compact Hermitian manifolds o…

2017-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New non-canonical flows found via parabolic Allen-Cahn equations.

problem Existence of non-canonical mean curvature flows inside fattening regions.
method Construction of non-canonical flows as limits of parabolic ε-Allen-Cahn solutions.
result First examples of non-outermost, non-canonical integral Brakke motions.

Self-test loss functions improve data-driven modeling of weak-form operators and gradient flows.

problem Challenges in selecting test functions for data-driven modeling involving weak-form operators and gradient flows.
method Introducing self-test loss functions that depend on unknown parameters and are quadratic.
result Self-test loss functions conserve energy for gradient flows and coincide with log-likelihood ratios for stochastic differential equations.

The paper studies limits of flows on Kähler surfaces, proving convergence to solutions of equations.

problem Analyzing limits of flows on Kähler surfaces and their convergence to solutions of equations.
method Using a property of limits of viscosity subsolutions.
result Proves convergence of flows to weak solutions of the Monge-Ampère equation.

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.

In this paper, we prove that on a Fano manifold MM which admits a Kähler-Ricci soliton $(\om,X)$, if the initial Kähler metric $\om_{\vphi_0}$ is close to $\om$ in some weak sense, then the weak Kähler-Ricci flow exists globally and converges in Cheeger-Gromov sense. Moreover, if $\vphi_0$ is also KXK_X-invariant, the…

2010-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on test risk dynamics in learning theory with stochastic gradient flow.

problem Understanding test risk in stochastic gradient flow dynamics.
method Path integral formulation for small learning rates, explicit computation for weak features.
result Explicit corrections due to stochastic term in dynamics, good agreement with simulations.

Studying the (long-term) behavior of the Kähler-Ricci flow on mildly singular varieties, one is naturally lead to study weak solutions of degenerate parabolic complex Monge-Ampére equations. The purpose of this article, the second of a series on this subject, is to develop a viscosity theory for degenerate complex Mong…

2014-07-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Long time existence and convergence to a circle is proved for radial graph solutions to a mean curvature type curve flow in warped product surfaces (under a weak assumption on the warp potential of the surface). This curvature flow preserves the area enclosed by the evolving curve, and this fact is used to prove a gene…

2016-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

This is the first of a series of papers, where we introduce a new class of estimates for the Ricci flow, and use them both to characterize solutions of the Ricci flow and to provide a notion of weak solutions to the Ricci flow in the nonsmooth setting. In this first paper, we prove various new estimates for the Ricci f…

2015-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove the existence of a unique global weak solution to the full bosonic string heat flow from closed Riemannian surfaces to an arbitrary target under smallness conditions on the two-form and the scalar potential. The solution is smooth with the exception of finitely many singular points. Finally, we discuss the con…

2017-10-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider a continuous curve of self-adjoint Fredholm extensions of a curve of closed symmetric operators with fixed minimal domain DmD_m and fixed {\it intermediate} domain DWD_W. Our main example is a family of symmetric generalized operators of Dirac type on a compact manifold with boundary with varying well-posed…

2004-06-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a proof that Brakke's mean curvature flow under the unit density assumption is smooth almost everywhere in space-time. More generally, if the velocity is equal in a weak sense to its mean curvature plus some given α-Hölder continuous vector field, then we show C^{2,α} regularity almost everywhere.

2012-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a new proof of Brakke's partial regularity theorem up to C^{1,ς} for weak varifold solutions of mean curvature flow by utilizing parabolic monotonicity formula, parabolic Lipschitz approximation and blow-up technique. The new proof extends to a general flow whose velocity is the sum of the mean curvature and an…

2011-11-03abs ↗pdf ↗