arXiv research

Estimates the rate of convergence of mean curvature flow solutions.

We confirm a well-known conjecture that the round sphere is the only compact, embedded self-similar shrinking solution to the mean curvature flow with genus $0$. More generally, we show that the only properly embedded self-similar shrinkers in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with vanishing intersection form are the sphere, the cylinder…

We consider the heat flow of corotational harmonic maps from $\mathbb R^3$ to the three-sphere and prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of a particular self-similar shrinker that is not known in closed form. Our method provides a novel, systematic, robust, and constructive approach to the stability analysis of self…

Study on stability of network flow shrinkers with findings on instability of specific shapes.

In this note, we prove that smooth self-shrinkers in $\Real^{n+1}$, that are entire graphs, are hyperplanes. Previously Ecker and Huisken showed that smooth self-shrinkers, that are entire graphs and have at most polynomial growth, are hyperplanes. The point of this note is that no growth assumption at infinity is need…

The study finds only spheres shrink self-similarly with quotient curvature speeds.

In this survey article, we discuss some topics on self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow and the mean curvature flow. Self-similar solutions to the Ricci flow are known as Ricci solitons. In the first part of this paper we discuss a lower diameter bound for compact manifolds with shrinking Ricci solitons. Such a boun…

Researchers find stable solutions for heat map flow in higher dimensions.

This work addresses the {\em singularity formation} of complete non-compact solutions to the conformally flat Yamabe flow whose conformal factors have {\em cylindrical behavior at infinity}. Their singularity profiles happen to be {\em Yamabe solitons}, which are {\em self-similar solutions} to the fast diffusion equat…

In [LW], we construct examples of two-dimensional Hamiltonian stationary self-shrinkers and self-expanders for Lagrangian mean curvature flows, which are asymptotic to the union of two Schoen-Wolfson cones. These self-shrinkers and self-expanders can be glued together to yield solutions of the Brakke flow - a weak form…

This paper classifies complete self-shrinkers in R^(n+1) with nonnegative constant scalar curvature.

We present new examples of complete embedded self-similar surfaces under mean curvature by gluing a sphere and a plane. These surfaces have finite genus and are the first examples of self-shrinkers in $\mathbb R^3$ that are not rotationally symmetric. The strategy for the construction is to start with a family of initi…

Let $C\subset\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be a regular cone with vertex at the origin. In this paper, we show the uniqueness for smooth properly embedded self-shrinking ends in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ that are asymptotic to $C$. As an application, we prove that not every regular cone with vertex at the origin has a smooth complete pro…

For hypersurfaces of dimension greater than one, Huisken showed that compact self-shrinkers of the mean curvature flow with positive scalar mean curvature are spheres. We will prove the following extension: A compact self-similar solution in arbitrary codimension and of dimension greater than one is spherical, i.e. con…

I classify spacelike self-similar shrinking solutions of the mean curvature flow in pseudo-euclidean space in arbitrary codimension, if the mean curvature vector is not a null vector and the principal normal vector is parallel in the normal bundle. Moreover, I exclude the existence of such self-shrinkers in several cas…

In this paper, we give a lower bound estimate for the diameter of a Lagrangian self-shrinker in a gradient shrinking Kähler-Ricci soliton as an analog of a result of A. Futaki, H. Li and X.-D. Li for a self-shrinker in a Euclidean space. We also prove an analog of a result of H.-D. Cao and H. Li about the non-existence…

Study classifies ruled surfaces from mean curvature flow solutions.

Study of Kähler-Ricci flows and Ricci shrinkers, focusing on their singularities and geometry.

We construct some examples of special Lagrangian submanifolds and Lagrangian self-similar solutions in almost Calabi-Yau cones over toric Sasaki manifolds. For example, for any integer g>0, we can construct a real 6 dimensional Calabi-Yau cone M_g and a 3 dimensional special Lagrangian submanifold L^1_g in M_g which is…

New comparison theorems for rotationally symmetric self-shrinkers help in proving the uniqueness of the Angenent torus.

Study noncollapsed F-limit metric solitons, proving properties similar to smooth Ricci shrinkers.

We construct many self-similar and translating solitons for Lagrangian mean curvature flow, including self-expanders and translating solitons with arbitrarily small oscillation on the Lagrangian angle. Our translating solitons play the same role as cigar solitons in Ricci flow, and are important in studying the regular…

We study some potential theoretic properties of homothetic solitons $Σ^n$ of the MCF and the IMCF. Using the analysis of the extrinsic distance function defined on these submanifolds in $\mathbb{R}^{n+m}$, we observe similarities and differences in the geometry of solitons in both flows. In particular, we show that par…

In this paper we construct an end of a self-similar shrinking solution of the mean curvature flow asymptotic to an isoparametric cone C and lying outside of C. We call a cone C in $R^{n+1}$ an isoparametric cone if C is the cone over a compact embedded isoparametric hypersurface $Γ\subset S^n$. The theory of isoparamet…

We show, for mean curvature flows in Euclidean space, that if one of the tangent flows at a given space-time point consists of a closed, multiplicity-one, smoothly embedded self-similar shrinker, then it is the unique tangent flow at that point. That is the limit of the parabolic rescalings does not depend on the chose…

We prove a lower bound estimate for the first non-zero eigenvalue of the Witten-Laplacian on compact Riemannian manifolds. As an application, we derive a lower bound estimate for the diameter of compact gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our results improve some previous estimates which were obtained by the first autho…

Compact shrinkers with curvature pinching conditions proven.

Proves existence of shrinkers via mean curvature flow.

The study counts ends on shrinkers using geometric covering methods.

Researchers set entropy limits for specific types of self-shrinkers.

New theorem shows noncompact self shrinkers are unknotted.

Strong Frankel theorem for shrinkers in all dimensions.

Study bounds on self-shrinkers with bounded HA for applications.

The paper proves bounded curvature for Kähler Ricci shrinker surfaces.

Local gap theorem for Ricci shrinkers ensures flatness if certain functionals are close to zero.

Estimates ends of Ricci shrinkers, focusing on smooth and singular cases.

We prove that the only self-similar surfaces of Euclidean 3-space which are foliated by circles are the self-similar surfaces of revolution discovered by S. Angenent and that the only ruled, self-similar surfaces are the cylinders over planar self-similar curves.

A rigidity theorem for smooth Legendrian self-shrinkers is proven.

New theorems on compactness and finiteness for specific types of self-shrinkers.

The paper studies scalar curvature of self-shrinkers and proves curvature bounds.

Generalizes halfspace theorems to higher dimensions for self-shrinkers.

The paper proves rigidity and ε-regularity theorems for Ricci shrinkers.

Regular shrinkers describe blow-up limits of a finite-time singularity of the motion by curvature of planar network of curves. This follows from Huisken's monotonicity formula. In this paper, we show that there is only one regular shrinker with 2 closed regions. This regular shrinker is the Cisgeminate eye. Moreover, w…

Eigenvalue estimate for shrinkers in mean curvature flow.

We investigate Mean Curvature Flow self-shrinking hypersurfaces with polynomial growth. It is known that such self shrinkers are unstable. We focus mostly on self-shrinkers of the form $\mathbb S^k\times\R^{n-k}\subset \R^{n+1}$. We use a connection between the stability operator and the quantum harmonic oscillator Ham…

Uniqueness of Kähler Ricci shrinkers proven on toric orbifolds.

Estimates the first eigenvalue of a Laplacian on self-shrinkers in Ricci shrinkers.

Let $π:\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}(0)\oplus \mathcal{O}(k))\to \mathbb{P}^{n-1}$ be a projective bundle over $\mathbb{P}^{n-1}$ with $1\leq k \leq n-1$. In this paper, we show that lens space $L(k\, ;1)(r)$ with radius $r$ embedded in $\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}(0)\oplus \mathcal{O}(k))$ is a self-similar solution, where $\math…