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We give the first rigorous construction of complete, embedded self-shrinking hypersurfaces under mean curvature flow, since Angenent's torus in 1989. The surfaces exist for any sufficiently large prescribed genus $g$, and are non-compact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-13 Nikolaos Kapouleas , Stephen J. Kleene , Niels Martin Møller

We construct a new example of an immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$, which converges to a plane with multiplicity $2$ as time approaches infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Jingwen Chen , Ao Sun

Let $L_t$ be a zero Maslov, rational Lagrangian mean curvature flow in a compact Calabi-Yau surface, and suppose that at the first singular time a tangent flow is given by the static union of two transverse planes. We show that in this case…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Jason D. Lotay , Felix Schulze , Gábor Székelyhidi

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for a class of crystalline mean curvature flows with natural mobility is proved. The results are valid in any dimension and for arbitrary, possibly unbounded, initial closed sets. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Marcello Ponsiglione

We show that the mean curvature blows up at the first finite singular time for a closed smooth embedded mean curvature flow in R^3.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Haozhao Li , Bing Wang

In this note, we combine the work of Ilmanen and of Colding-Ilmanen-Minicozzi to observe a uniqueness property for tangent flows at the first singular time of a smooth mean curvature flow of a closed surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Jacob Bernstein , Lu Wang

We study the formation of singularities for the mean curvature flow of monotone Lagrangians in $\C^n$. More precisely, we show that if singularities happen before a critical time then the tangent flow can be decomposed into a finite union…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andre' Neves

In this paper, we prove short time existence and uniqueness of smooth evolution by mean curvature in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ starting from any $n$-dimensional $(\varepsilon,R)$-Reifenberg flat set with $\varepsilon$ sufficiently small. More…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Or Hershkovits

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We show, for mean curvature flows in Euclidean space, that if one of the tangent flows at a given space-time point consists of a closed, multiplicity-one, smoothly embedded self-similar shrinker, then it is the unique tangent flow at that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-10-12 Felix Schulze

We prove a smooth compactness theorem for the space of embedded self-shrinkers in $\RR^3$. Since self-shrinkers model singularities in mean curvature flow, this theorem can be thought of as a compactness result for the space of all…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-07-16 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Raphael Tsiamis

In this paper we demonstrate that if two mean curvature flows of compact hypersurfaces $M^1_t$ and $M^2_t$ encounter only isolated, multiplicity one, asymptotically conical singularities at the first singular time $T$, and if $M^1_T=M^2_T$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-19 J. M. Daniels-Holgate , Or Hershkovits

It is conjectured that the mean curvature blows up at the first singular time of the mean curvature flow in Euclidean space, at least in dimensions less or equal to 7. We show that the mean curvature blows up at the singularities of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Longzhi Lin , Natasa Sesum

We show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ avoids asymptotically conical and non-spherical compact singularities. We also show that the mean curvature flow of generic closed low-entropy hypersurfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Otis Chodosh , Kyeongsu Choi , Christos Mantoulidis , Felix Schulze

Let \Sigma be a compact oriented surface immersed in a four dimensional K\"ahler-Einstein manifold M. We consider the evolution of \Sigma in the direction of its mean curvature vector. It is proved that being symplectic is preserved along…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mu-Tao Wang

We study singularities of Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\C^n$ when the initial condition is a zero-Maslov class Lagrangian. We start by showing that, in this setting, singularities are unavoidable. More precisely, we construct…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Andre' Neves

We prove that for a mean curvature flow of a compact symplectic surface in a compact Kaehler-Einstein surface, the tangent cone at the first blow-up time consists of a finite union of more than two 2-planes in $R^4$ which are complex in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jingyi Chen , Jiayu Li

We study noncompact surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow. Without any symmetry assumptions, we prove that any solution that is $C^3$-close at some time to a standard neck will develop a neckpinch singularity in finite time, will become…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Zhou Gang , Dan Knopf

Consider a family of smooth immersions $F(\cdot,t): M^n\to \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ of closed hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ moving by the mean curvature flow $\frac{\partial F(p,t)}{\partial t} = -H(p,t)\cdot \nu(p,t)$, for $t\in [0,T)$. In…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Nam Q. Le , Natasa Sesum