Paper · Feb 13, 2023

On the rate of convergence of the rescaled mean curvature flow

Rory Martin-Hagemayer, Natasa Sesum

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We estimate from above the rate at which a solution to the rescaled mean curvature flow on a closed hypersurface may converge to a limit self-similar solution, i.e. a shrinker. Our main result implies that any solution which converges to a shrinker faster than any fixed exponential rate must itself be shrinker itself.

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    Topics Mean curvature flow · Shared terms “rescaled mean”

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    Topics Mean curvature flow · Shared terms “rescaled mean”, “exponential rate”

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    Topics Ricci solitons · Shared terms “rescaled mean”

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    Topics Mean curvature flow · Same author Natasa Sesum · Shared terms “rescaled mean”

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    Topics Mean curvature flow · Same author Natasa Sesum · Shared terms “rescaled”

  6. Formation and structural stability of nondegenerate neckpinches

    Kyeongsu Choi, Panagiota Daskalopoulos and Natasa SesumWider flows PDF

    Topics Mean curvature flow · Same author Natasa Sesum · Shared terms “rescaled”

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    The Asymptotic Soliton and Three-Dimensional ShrinkersBook 12B · κ-Solutions and Surgery

    Perelman's Proposition 11.2 proved with Morgan and Tian: the reduced-length bounds on κ-solutions, the limit of rescalings, the equality case, and the classification of shrinking solitons in dimensions two and three.

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    Curve Shortening and the First Geometric FlowsBook 6A · The Heat Equation and Its Relatives

    Shrinking circles, grim reapers, neckpinches and Huisken’s monotonicity, seen in the plane.