Paper · Sep 20, 2026
Convergence of cohomogeneity-one Lagrangian mean curvature flow in positive Kähler-Einstein manifolds
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Abstract
We prove that Lagrangian mean curvature flow starting from a closed, embedded, cohomogeneity-one Lagrangian in a closed, positive Kähler–Einstein manifold exists for all time, remains embedded, and converges smoothly and graphically to a minimal Lagrangian, under natural exactness and regularity assumptions. We also study the generalised Lagrangian mean curvature flow of Behrndt in Kähler manifolds which are almost-Einstein in the sense that the Ricci form satisfies , and which satisfy . With analogous assumptions on the flow, we obtain subconvergence to an -minimal Lagrangian submanifold, with an upgrade to smooth graphical convergence in the case that is analytic. The proof proceeds by first reducing the flow to a weighted curve shortening flow on a compact two-dimensional orbifold. We then establish both a Grayson-type description of finite-time singularities and a long-time subconvergence theorem for weighted curve shortening flow in the orbifold setting. Finally, we use a Łojasiewicz–Simon inequality argument to upgrade to smooth convergence of the full flow.
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Shrinking circles, grim reapers, neckpinches and Huisken’s monotonicity, seen in the plane.
- 12C.4Loops, Disks and Curve Shrinking
Perelman III §§2–3 and Morgan–Tian §§18.3–18.7: π₃ as spheres of loops, minimal disks and the −2π estimate, curve shrinking, ramps in M × S¹ and the estimates that make the argument rigorous.
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Constant-curvature metrics on surfaces, and Ricci flow as a heat equation for the conformal factor.