Paper · Dec 29, 2023

Mean curvature flow with multiplicity 2 convergence in

Jingwen Chen, Ao Sun

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2312.17457v3Analysis & PDE 19 (2026) 1029-1060
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We construct a new example of an immortal mean curvature flow of smooth embedded connected surfaces in , which converges to a plane with multiplicity as time approaches infinity.

Comments: 30 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Analysis & PDE

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