Classification of bubble-sheet ovals in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$
Differential Geometry
2025-04-30 v3 Analysis of PDEs
Abstract
In this paper, we prove that any bubble-sheet oval for the mean curvature flow in , up to scaling and rigid motion, either is the -symmetric ancient oval constructed by Hershkovits and the fourth author, or belongs to the one-parameter family of -symmetric ancient ovals constructed by the third and fourth author. In particular, this seems to be the first instance of a classification result for geometric flows that are neither cohomogeneity-one nor selfsimilar.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2209.04931,
title = {Classification of bubble-sheet ovals in $\mathbb{R}^{4}$},
author = {Beomjun Choi and Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Wenkui Du and Robert Haslhofer and Natasa Sesum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04931},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
88 pages. In v2, we added details to the proof of Corollary 1.5. In v3, minor corrections are made following referee's suggestion. The paper will appear in Geom. Topol