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Fattening in mean curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2025-04-08 v3

Abstract

For each g3g\ge 3, we prove existence of a compact, connected, smoothly embedded, genus-gg surface MgM_g with the following property: under mean curvature flow, there is exactly one singular point at the first singular time, and the tangent flow at the singularity is given by a shrinker with genus (g1)(g-1) and with two ends. Furthermore, we show that if gg is sufficiently large, then MgM_g fattens at the first singular time. As gg\to\infty, the shrinker converges to a multiplicity 22 plane.

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@article{arxiv.2406.18703,
  title  = {Fattening in mean curvature flow},
  author = {Tom Ilmanen and Brian White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.18703},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

32 pages, 2 figures. This the version published in Ars Inveniendi Analytica