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Mean curvature blow up in mean curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2010-05-25 v4

Abstract

In this note we establish that finite-time singularities of the mean curvature flow of compact Riemannian submanifolds are characterised by the blow up of the mean curvature.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4282,
  title  = {Mean curvature blow up in mean curvature flow},
  author = {Andrew A. Cooper},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4282},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to an error in the proof of Proposition 3.2, in particular the claim that bounded mean curvature implies uniform-in-time continuity of the metric