Paper · Apr 15, 2026

Mean curvature flows with prescribed singular sets

Raphael Tsiamis

math.DGWider flowsarXiv:2604.14139
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For every closed set and every , we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in , with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily -close to the Euclidean metric, whose first-time singular set is exactly .

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  1. 11B.2
    Ancient Solutions and the Harnack InequalityBook 11B · Solitons, Compactness and Singularities

    Comparing curvature across space and time.

  2. 12B.1
    κ-SolutionsBook 12B · κ-Solutions and Surgery

    Ancient, nonnegatively curved, noncollapsed: the models for singularities.

  3. 12B.2
    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.