The classical Gauss curvature flow was introduced by Firey in 1974 as an idealized model for the abrasion of convex stones under random collisions on a beach. In 1985, Kai-Seng Chou proved that convex hypersurfaces contract to a point in finite time under this flow. Later, in 1999, Ben Andrews showed that in two dimensions the rescaled flow converges to a round sphere. Subsequent works by Ben Andrews, Bennett Chow, Pengfei Guan, Lei Ni, and Brendle-Choi-Daskalopoulos established analogous convergence results in higher dimensions, as well as for the power Gauss curvature flow. In this talk, based on joint work with Xinqun Mei and Guofang Wang, we present convergence results for capillary variants of the Gauss curvature flow and power Gauss curvature flow under hydrophilic case.

The classical Gauss curvature flow was introduced by Firey in 1974 as an idealized model for the abrasion of convex stones under random collisions on a beach. In 1985, Kai-Seng Chou proved that convex hypersurfaces contract to a point in finite time under this flow. Later, in 1999, Ben Andrews showed that in two dimensions the rescaled flow converges to a round sphere. Subsequent works by Ben Andrews, Bennett Chow, Pengfei Guan, Lei Ni, and Brendle-Choi-Daskalopoulos established analogous convergence results in higher dimensions, as well as for the power Gauss curvature flow. In this talk, based on joint work with Xinqun Mei and Guofang Wang, we present convergence results for capillary variants of the Gauss curvature flow and power Gauss curvature flow under hydrophilic case.