Paper · Nov 25, 2022

Convexity of 2-convex translating and expanding solitons to the mean curvature flow in

Junming Xie, Jiangtao Yu

math.DGarXiv:2211.14281J. Geom. Anal. 33 (2023), no. 8, Paper No. 252, 19 pp
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In this paper, inspired by the work of Spruck-Xiao [27] and based partly on a result of Derdziński [11], we prove the convexity of complete 2-convex translating and expanding solitons to the mean curvature flow in . More precisely, for , we show that any -dimensional complete 2-convex translating solitons are convex, and any -dimensional complete 2-convex self-expanders asymptotic to (strictly) mean convex cones are convex.

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