Fattening in mean curvature flow
Differential Geometry
2025-04-08 v3
Abstract
For each , we prove existence of a compact, connected, smoothly embedded, genus- surface 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 and with two ends. Furthermore, we show that if is sufficiently large, then fattens at the first singular time. As , the shrinker converges to a multiplicity plane.
Cite
@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