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Front．Math．China2014，9(3)：509521 DOI10．1007／s11464—014—0371—9 ／k■nl●sotIroDl●C l●nverse liarm onl●C meancurvatureflow JianLU DepartmentofAppliedMathematics，ZhejiangUniversityofTechnologyjHangzhou310032 China ⑥ HigherEducationPressandSpringer—VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2014 Abstract Westudytheevolutionofconvexhypersurfaces (。t)withinitial (．，0)= 0 1atarateequaltoH — falongitsouternormal，where日 iS theinverseofharmonicmeancurvatureof f．，t)， isasmooth，closed，and uniformlyconvexhypersurface．W efinda 0 0and asumcientcondition abouttheanisotropicfunction f，suchthatif0 0，then (．，)remains uniformlyconvexandexpandstoinfinityast +。。anditsscaling， f．t)e t， convergestoasphere．Inaddition，theconvergenceresultisgeneralizedtothe fullynonlinearcaseinwhichtheevolutionrateiSlogH—logfinsteadofH—f． Keywords C1irvatureflow，parabolicequation，asymptoticbehavior M SC 35J60，35K45，52C44，53A05 1 Introduction A hypersurfaceiscalleduniformlyconvexifitsprincipalcurvaturesarepositive． Itiswellknown thata smooth，closed，anduniformlyconvexhypersurfacein R +lcanbeparameterizedbytheinverseGaussmap． ：Sn__÷ +1 ． mappingtheunitouternormalXat ()to ()itself，where S = x∈1R佗+：Il=1) isthen—dimensionalunitsphere．Letfbeapositivesmoothfunctiondefined on Sn．Given a0 0 and asmooth，closed，uniform ly convex hypersurface - Z／0= ( )，where istheinverseGaussmap．Considertheevolutionof Received February 18，2014；accepted March 17，2014 E—mail：U—tshu04~163．corn 510 Jian LU smooth，closed，anduniformlyconvexhypersurface 旦 上(，z)= ( (，))一，() (，t)∈ ×(0，) Ot (，0)= ()， ∈S， where (·，t)istheinverseGaussmapof ， 上(z，t)：=(Sr(x，)，xx， thenormalpartof (·，t)，and日( )istheinverseofharmonicmeancurvature of√