Paper · Oct 1, 2025

Approximate mean curvature flows of a general varifold, and their limit spacetime Brakke flow

Blanche Buet, Gian Paolo Leonardi, Simon Masnou, Abdelmouksit Sagueni

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2510.00746
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We propose a construction of mean curvature flows by approximation for very general initial data, in the spirit of the works of Brakke and of Kim & Tonegawa based on the theory of varifolds. Given a general varifold, we construct by iterated push-forwards an approximate time-discrete mean curvature flow depending on both a given time step and an approximation parameter. We show that, as the time step tends to , this time-discrete flow converges to a unique limit flow, which we call the approximate mean curvature flow. An interesting feature of our approach is its generality, as it provides an approximate notion of mean curvature flow for very general structures of any dimension and codimension, ranging from continuous surfaces to discrete point clouds. We prove that our approximate mean curvature flow satisfies several properties: stability, uniqueness, Brakke-type equality, mass decay. By coupling this approximate flow with the canonical time measure, we prove convergence, as the approximation parameter tends to , to a spacetime limit measure whose generalized mean curvature is bounded. Under an additional rectifiability assumption, we further prove that this limit measure is a spacetime Brakke flow.

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