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Regularity of cylindrical singular sets of mean curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2025-09-03 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this paper, we study the kk-cylindrical singular set of mean curvature flow in Rn+1\mathbb R^{n+1} for each 1kn11\leq k\leq n-1. We prove that they are locally contained in a kk-dimensional C2,αC^{2,\alpha}-submanifold after removing some lower-dimensional parts. Moreover, if the kk-cylindrical singular set is a kk-submanifold, then its curvature is determined by the asymptotic profile of the flow at these singularities. As a byproduct, we provide a detailed asymptotic profile and graphical radius estimate at these singularities. The proof is based on a new L2L^2-distance non-concentration property that we introduced in [SWX25], modified into a relative version that allows us to modulo those low eigenmodes that are not decaying fast enough and do not contribute to the curvature of the singular set.

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@article{arxiv.2509.01707,
  title  = {Regularity of cylindrical singular sets of mean curvature flow},
  author = {Ao Sun and Zhihan Wang and Jinxin Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.01707},
  year   = {2025}
}

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