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Generating Shrinkers by Mean Curvature Flow

Differential Geometry 2026-01-22 v3

Abstract

We prove existence for many examples of shrinkers by producing compact, smoothly embedded surfaces that, under mean curvature flow, develop singularities at which the shrinkers occur as blowups.

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@article{arxiv.2502.20340,
  title  = {Generating Shrinkers by Mean Curvature Flow},
  author = {David Hoffman and Francisco Martin and Brian White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20340},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

50 pages, 9 figures. The new version (January 20, 2026) incorporates many small changes suggested by the referees

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