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Codimension Bounds and Rigidity of Ancient Mean Curvature Flows by the Tangent Flow at $-\infty$

Differential Geometry 2021-10-27 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Motivated by the limiting behavior of an explicit class of compact ancient curve shortening flows, we prove codimension bounds for ancient mean curvature flows by their tangent flow at -\infty, generalizing a theorem for cylinders in [CM19b]. In the case of the mm-covered circle, we apply this bound to prove a strong rigidity theorem. Furthermore, we extend this paradigm by showing that under the assumption of sufficiently rapid convergence, a compact ancient mean curvature flow is identical to its tangent flow at -\infty.

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@article{arxiv.1909.02535,
  title  = {Codimension Bounds and Rigidity of Ancient Mean Curvature Flows by the Tangent Flow at $-\infty$},
  author = {Douglas Stryker and Ao Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02535},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

17 pages. Modify the paper according to the referees' suggestion. In particular we remove Theorem 1.3 in the previous version, where there is a gap in the proof. Accepted by Communications in Contemporary Mathematics. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.02688