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We prove sharp Weinstock inequalities for the first nonzero Steklov eigenvalue of smooth outward-minimizing domains in Euclidean space and hyperbolic space. The method is based on the weak inverse mean curvature flow of Huisken--Ilmanen. The main new ingredient is an endpoint distributional monotonicity argument obtained from the calibrated weak formulation and the Gauss--Green formula for divergence-measure fields.
We prove an anisotropic analogue of the higher regularity theorem of Huisken and Ilmanen for inverse mean curvature flow. For an arbitrary smooth Minkowski norm, we first prove a Huisken--Ilmanen type Harnack estimate for smooth closed strictly star-shaped solutions. We then construct global smooth solutions starting from $C^1$ strictly star-shaped hypersurfaces with bounded nonnegative weak anisotropic mean curvature. Combining this construction with the asymptotic theory for weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow, we show that weak solutions starting from bounded smooth initial sets become smooth outside a compact set.
We first establish a local gradient estimate for anisotropic $p$-harmonic functions. A key feature of our estimate is that the constant remains bounded as $p\to 1$; consequently, in the limit $p\to 1$, this estimate yields the local gradient estimate for weak solutions of the inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow (IAMCF). As an application, we show that the weak IAMCF is asymptotic to the expanding Wulff shape solution at the infinity, thereby extending the result of Huisken and Ilmanen in [8] to the anisotropic case.
In this paper, we first consider the curve case of Hu-Li-Wei's flow for shifted principal curvatures of h-convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ proposed in [10]. We prove that if the initial closed curve is smooth and strictly h-convex, then the solution exists for all time and preserves strict h-convexity along the flow. Moreover, the evolving curve converges smoothly and exponentially to a geodesic circle centered at the origin. The key ingredient in our proof is the Heintze-Karcher type inequality for h-convex curves proved recently in [14]. As an application, we then provide a new proof of geometric inequalities involving weighted curvature integrals and modified quermassintegrals for h-convex curves in $\mathbb{H}^2$. We finally discuss the stability of these inequalities as well as Alexandrov-Fenchel type inequalities for modified quermassintegrals for strictly h-convex domains in $\mathbb{H}^{n+1}$.