Gauss map harmonicity and mean curvature of a hypersurface in a homogeneous manifold

Gauss Maps of the Mean Curvature Flow

Let F : Σ n × [0, T) → R n+m be a family of compact immersed submanifolds moving by their mean curvature vectors. We show the Gauss maps γ : (Σ n , g t) → G(n, m) form a harmonic heat flow with respect to the time-dependent induced metric g t. This provides a more systematic approach to investigating higher codimension mean curvature flows. A direct consequence is any convex function on G(n, m)...

Curvature Groups of a Hypersurface

A cochain complex associated with the vector 1-form determined by the first and second fundamental tensors of a hypersurface M in E"+l is introduced. Its cohomology groups HP(M), called curvature groups, are isomorphic with the cohomology groups of M with coefficients in a subsheaf %R of the sheaf S of closed vector fields on M. If M is a minimal variety, the same conclusion is valid with S^ re...

Hypersurfaces with Constant Mean Curvature in a Lorentzian Space Form

Curvature of a Closed Hypersurface

Mean Curvature Flow with Convex Gauss Image

We study the mean curvature flow of complete space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space with bounded Gauss image, as well as that of complete submanifolds in Euclidean space with convex Gauss image. By using the confinable property of the Gauss image under the mean curvature flow we prove the long time existence results in both cases. We also study the asymptotic behavior of these soluti...