Paper · Nov 28, 2025

Harnack Inequality for -Mean Curvature Flow

Xiang-Dong Li, Qi Yan

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2511.23330
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In this paper, we prove a Li-Yau-Hamilton type Harnack estimate for the -mean curvature flow in Euclidean space, which can be viewed as a gradient flow of the weighed area functional with the measure density function .

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