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Universality in mean curvature flow neckpinches

Differential Geometry 2015-11-04 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study noncompact surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow. Without any symmetry assumptions, we prove that any solution that is C3C^3-close at some time to a standard neck will develop a neckpinch singularity in finite time, will become asymptotically rotationally symmetric in a space-time neighborhood of its singular set, and will have a unique tangent flow.

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@article{arxiv.1308.5600,
  title  = {Universality in mean curvature flow neckpinches},
  author = {Zhou Gang and Dan Knopf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.5600},
  year   = {2015}
}

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