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Type-II singularities of two-convex immersed mean curvature flow

Differential Geometry 2016-06-01 v1

Abstract

We show that any strictly mean convex translator of dimension n3n\geq 3 which admits a cylindrical estimate and a corresponding gradient estimate is rotationally symmetric. As a consequence, we deduce that any translating solution of the mean curvature flow which arises as a blow-up limit of a two-convex mean curvature flow of compact immersed hypersurfaces of dimension n3n\geq 3 is rotationally symmetric. The proof is rather robust, and applies to a more general class of translator equations. As a particular application, we prove an analogous result for a class of flows of embedded hypersurfaces which includes the flow of two-convex hypersurfaces by the two-harmonic mean curvature.

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@article{arxiv.1605.09609,
  title  = {Type-II singularities of two-convex immersed mean curvature flow},
  author = {Theodora Bourni and Mat Langford},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09609},
  year   = {2016}
}