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Topology of Closed Hypersurfaces of Small Entropy

Differential Geometry 2018-03-16 v2 Analysis of PDEs Geometric Topology

Abstract

We use a weak mean curvature flow together with a surgery procedure to show that all closed hypersurfaces in R4\mathbb{R}^4 with entropy less than or equal to that of S2×R\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}, the round cylinder in R4\mathbb{R}^4, are diffeomorphic to S3\mathbb{S}^3.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00387,
  title  = {Topology of Closed Hypersurfaces of Small Entropy},
  author = {Jacob Bernstein and Lu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00387},
  year   = {2018}
}

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24 pages. Revised version