English

Arnold-Thom conjecture for the arrival time of surfaces

Differential Geometry 2025-06-27 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Following \L ojasiewicz's uniqueness theorem and Thom's gradient conjecture, Arnold proposed a stronger version about the existence of limit tangents of gradient flow lines for analytic functions. We prove \L ojasiewicz's theorem and Arnold's conjecture in the context of arrival time functions for mean curvature flows in Rn+1\mathbb R^{n+1} with neck or non-degenerate cylindrical singularities. In particular, we prove the conjectures for all mean convex mean curvature flows of surfaces, including the cases when the arrival time functions are not C2.C^2. The results also apply to mean curvature flows starting from two-spheres or generic closed surfaces.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.19064,
  title  = {Arnold-Thom conjecture for the arrival time of surfaces},
  author = {Tang-Kai Lee and Jingze Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.19064},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

final version, accepted to Duke Math J