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Singularity models of pinched solutions of mean curvature flow in higher codimension

Differential Geometry 2020-04-20 v2

Abstract

We consider ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} (n3n \geq 3) that are weakly convex, uniformly two-convex, and satisfy derivative estimates Aγ1H2,2Aγ2H3|\nabla A| \leq \gamma_1 |H|^2, |\nabla^2 A| \leq \gamma_2 |H|^3. We show that such solutions are noncollapsed. As an application, in arbitrary codimension, we consider compact nn-dimensional (n5n \geq 5) solutions to the mean curvature flow in RN\mathbb{R}^N that satisfy the pinching condition H>0|H| > 0 and A2<c(n)H2|A|^2 < c(n) |H|^2, c(n)=min{1n2,3(n+1)2n(n+2)}c(n) = \min\{\frac{1}{n-2}, \frac{3(n+1)}{2n(n+2)}\}. We conclude that any blow-up model at the first singular time must be a codimension one shrinking sphere, shrinking cylinder, or translating bowl soliton.

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@article{arxiv.1910.03968,
  title  = {Singularity models of pinched solutions of mean curvature flow in higher codimension},
  author = {Keaton Naff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.03968},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

We have added a structure theorem for the case when the ancient solution is compact