English

Classification of bubble-sheet ovals in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$

Differential Geometry 2025-04-30 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that any bubble-sheet oval for the mean curvature flow in R4\mathbb{R}^4, up to scaling and rigid motion, either is the O(2)×O(2)\textrm{O}(2)\times \textrm{O}(2)-symmetric ancient oval constructed by Hershkovits and the fourth author, or belongs to the one-parameter family of Z22×O(2)\mathbb{Z}_2^2\times \textrm{O}(2)-symmetric ancient ovals constructed by the third and fourth author. In particular, this seems to be the first instance of a classification result for geometric flows that are neither cohomogeneity-one nor selfsimilar.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2209.04931,
  title  = {Classification of bubble-sheet ovals in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$},
  author = {Beomjun Choi and Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Wenkui Du and Robert Haslhofer and Natasa Sesum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04931},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

88 pages. In v2, we added details to the proof of Corollary 1.5. In v3, minor corrections are made following referee's suggestion. The paper will appear in Geom. Topol

R2 v1 2026-06-28T01:05:36.705Z