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On Neck Singularities for 2-Convex Mean Curvature Flow

Differential Geometry 2017-06-12 v1

Abstract

In this paper we are dealing with mean curvature flow with surgeries of two-convex hypersurfaces. The main focus is to expand on the discussion in Section 33 of Mean Curvature Flow with Surgeries of Two-Convex Hypersurfaces by Huisken and Sinestrari. Firstly we wish to establish how the neck detection lemma allows us to detect necks where the cross sections will be diffeomorphic to Sn1S^{n-1}. We then want to see how we are able to glue these cross sections together with full control on their parametrisation - for this we will show we can use a harmonic spherical parametrisation using the techniques from Hamiltons paper, Four-manifolds with Positive Isotropic Curvature. We then introduce the notion of a normal and maximal necks, this allows us to obtain uniqueness, existence and overlapping properties for normal parametrisations on (ϵ,k)(\epsilon,k)-cylindrical hypersurface necks. Lastly given a neck N:Sn1×[a,b]MN:S^{n-1}\times[a,b]\to\mathcal{M} we want to see that in the case that either a=a=\infty or b=b=\infty that this forces them to both to be \infty and that we are left with a solid tube Sn1×S1S^{n-1}\times S^1.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02818,
  title  = {On Neck Singularities for 2-Convex Mean Curvature Flow},
  author = {Alexander Majchrowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02818},
  year   = {2017}
}