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    Volume-Preserving flow by powers of the mth mean curvature in the hyperbolic space

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    This paper concerns closed hypersurfaces of dimension n(≥2)n(\geq 2) in the hyperbolic space Hκn+1{\mathbb{H}}_{\kappa}^{n+1} of constant sectional curvature κ\kappa evolving in direction of its normal vector, where the speed is given by a power β(≥1/m)\beta (\geq 1/m) of the mmth mean curvature plus a volume preserving term, including the case of powers of the mean curvature and of the \mbox{Gau\ss} curvature. The main result is that if the initial hypersurface satisfies that the ratio of the biggest and smallest principal curvature is close enough to 1 everywhere, depending only on nn, mm, β\beta and κ\kappa, then under the flow this is maintained, there exists a unique, smooth solution of the flow for all times, and the evolving hypersurfaces exponentially converge to a geodesic sphere of Hκn+1{\mathbb{H}}_{\kappa}^{n+1}, enclosing the same volume as the initial hypersurface.Comment: 36page

    MEAN CURVATURE FLOW OF SUBMANIFOLDS WITH SMALL TRACELESS SECOND FUNDAMENTAL FORM

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    Consider a family of smooth immersions F(; t) : Mn  Mn+k of submanifolds in Mn+k moving by mean curvature flow = , where  is the mean curvature vector for the evolving submanifold. We prove that for any n >-2 and k>-1, the flow starting from a closed submanifold with small L2-norm of the traceless second fundamental form contracts to a round point in finite time, and the corresponding normalized flow converges exponentially in the C-topology, to an n-sphere in some subspace Mn+1 of Mn+k
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