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Sharp Quartic Pinching for the Mean Curvature Flow in the Sphere

Differential Geometry 2024-08-16 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We prove a sharp quartic curvature pinching for the mean curvature flow in Sn+m\mathbb{S}^{n+m}, m2m\ge2, which generalises Pu's work on the convergence of submanifolds in Sn+m\mathbb{S}^{n+m} to a round point. Using a blow up argument, we prove a codimension and a cylindrical estimate, where in regions of high curvature, the submanifold becomes approximately codimension one, quantitatively, and is weakly convex and moves by translation or is a self shrinker. With a decay estimate, the rescaling converges smoothly to a totally geodesic limit in infinite time, without using Stampacchia iteration or integral analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2408.08022,
  title  = {Sharp Quartic Pinching for the Mean Curvature Flow in the Sphere},
  author = {Artemis A. Vogiatzi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.08022},
  year   = {2024}
}
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