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Ancient ovals are key blowup limits in 3D Ricci flow near singularities.

Study on the geometry of limit spaces of manifolds with boundary.

It is a fundamental open problem for the mean curvature flow, and in fact for many partial differential equations, whether or not all blowup limits are selfsimilar. In this short note, we prove that for the mean curvature flow of mean convex surfaces all limit flows are selfsimilar (static, shrinking or translating) if…

We construct and classify, in the case of two complex dimensions, the possible tangent cones at points of limit spaces of non-collapsed sequences of Kähler-Einstein metrics with cone singularities.

Study of large mass limits of G2 and Calabi-Yau monopoles on specific manifolds.

Characterizes limits of Ricci flows and their singularities.

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

Consider the Kahler-Ricci flow with finite time singularities over any closed Kahler manifold. We prove the existence of the flow limit in the sense of current towards the time of singularity. This answers affirmatively a problem raised by Tian on the uniqueness of the weak limit from sequential convergence constructio…

Study two types of singular Kähler-Einstein metrics on complex varieties.

This is a continuation of paper \cite{Li}. On any toric Fano manifold, we discuss the behavior of limit metric of a sequence of metrics, which are solutions to a continuity family of complex Monge-Ampere equations in Kahler-Einstein problem. We show that the limit metric satisfies a singular complex Monge-Ampere equati…

We study sequences of 3-dimensional solutions to the Ricci flow with almost nonnegative sectional curvatures and diameters tending to infinity. Such sequences may arise from the limits of dilations about singularities of Type IIb. In particular, we study the case when the sequence collapses, which may occur when dilati…

We study isolated singularities of two dimensional Yang-Mills-Higgs fields defined on a fiber bundle, where the fiber space is a compact Riemannian manifold and the structure group is a compact connected Lie group. In general the singularity can not be removed due to possibly non-vanishing limit holonomy around the sin…

Study geodesic paths on flat surfaces, comparing length and singularity counts.

Sharp bound on singular set dimension for specific geometric problems.

Study shows flow convergence to smooth K-Ricci outside a divisor with cusp singularity.

The paper proves rigidity theorems for Type II singularities in Lagrangian flows.

Study the singular limit of a boundary reaction equation, showing energy concentration and varifold support.

This is the second of a series of three papers which provide proofs of results announced in arXiv:1210.7494. In this paper we consider the Gromov-Hausdorff limits of metrics with cone singularities in the case when the limiting cone angle is less than 2π. We show that these are in a natrual way projective algebraic var…

Smoothness of collapsed regions in soap films is proven, indicating wetted singularities.

Kähler-Ricci flow shows type II singularity on Fano threefolds.

We study blow-ups around fixed points at Type I singularities of the Ricci flow on closed manifolds using Perelman's W-functional. First, we give an alternative proof of the result obtained by Naber and Enders-Müller-Topping that blow-up limits are non-flat gradient shrinking Ricci solitons. Our second and main result …

Study on singularities in Lagrangian mean curvature flow with special Lagrangian cones.

In this paper, which is a sequel to math.DG/9902111, we analyze the limit of the p-form Laplacian under a collapse with bounded sectional curvature and bounded diameter to a singular limit space. As applications, we give results about upper and lower bounds on the j-th eigenvalue of the p-form Laplacian, in terms of se…

Study geometric properties of surfaces with specific formulae.

In this paper we prove a conjecture by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf in \cite{FIK} that the gradient shrinking soliton metric they constructed on the tautological line bundle over $\CP^1$ is the uniform limit of blow-ups of a type I Ricci flow singularity on a closed manifold. We use this result to show that limits of blow-ups…

We show that a rescale limit at any degenerate singularity of Ricci flow in dimension 3 is a steady gradient soliton. In particular, we give a geometric description of type I and type II singularities.

Study shows continuity and geometric regularity of Kähler-Ricci flow blow-up limits.

Study on Kähler-Ricci flow and conformal submersion singularity formation.

We develop some techniques to study the adiabatic limiting behaviour of Calabi-Yau metrics on the total space of a fibration, and obtain strong control near the singular fibres by imposing restrictions on the singularity types. We prove a uniform lower bound on the metric up to the singular fibre, under fairly general …

Newly discovered Eguchi-Hanson metric arises from edge metrics.

Singular monopoles are nonabelian monopoles with prescribed Dirac-type singularities. All of them are delivered by the Nahm's construction. In practice, however, the effectiveness of the latter is limited to the cases of one or two singularities. We present an alternative construction of singular monopoles formulated i…

The paper improves estimates on singular sets in manifolds with integral curvature bounds.

Curve shortening flow converges to a point with entropy bound.

We study the limiting behaviour of Darboux and Calapso transforms of polarized curves in the conformal n-dimensional sphere, when the polarization has a pole of first or second order at some point. We prove that for a pole of first order, as the singularity is approached all Darboux transforms converge to the original …

Study shows Kähler-Einstein metric singularities linked to curvature.

Study shows properties of Gromov-Hausdorff limit of frame bundles for non-collapsed manifolds.

We define Type I singularities for the mean curvature flow associated to a density $ψ$ ($ψ$MCF) and describe the blow-up at singular time of these singularities. Special attention is paid to the case where the singularity come from the part of the $ψ$-curvature due to the density. We describe a family of curves whose e…

We study singularity structure of Yang-Mills flow in dimensions $n \geq 4$. First we obtain a description of the singular set in terms of concentration for a localized entropy quantity, which leads to an estimate of its Hausdorff dimension. We develop a theory of tangent measures for the flow, which leads to a stratifi…

The paper discusses polynomial convergence to conical Kähler-Einstein metrics.

Study uses blow-up method to analyze foliations in Riemannian geometry.

Wavelet analysis reveals limitations in detecting multifractality in signals with isolated singularities.

We prove an existence theorem for Asymptotically Conical Ricci Flat Kahler metrics in $\mathbb{C}^2$ with cone singularities along a smooth complex curve. These metrics are expected to arise as blow up limits of non collapsed sequences of Kahler Einstein metrics with cone singularities.

We show that the number of entire maximal graphs with finitely many singular points that are conformally equivalent is a universal constant that depends only on the number of singularities, namely 2^$ for graphs with n+1 singularities. We also give an explicit description of the family of entire maximal graphs with a f…

Given a compact closed subset $M$ of a line segment in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we construct a sequence of minimal surfaces $Σ_k$ embedded in a neighborhood $C$ of the line segment that converge smoothly to a limit lamination of $C$ away from $M$. Moreover, the curvature of this sequence blows up precisely on $M$, and the limit…

Study on curvature invariants near singularities of wavefronts.

The abstract discusses how Kähler-Einstein metrics relate to algebraic geometry.

We study non-variational degenerate elliptic equations with high order singular structures. No boundary data are imposed and singularities occur along an {\it a priori} unknown interior region. We prove that positive solutions have a universal modulus of continuity that does not depend on their infimum value. We furthe…

Study high codimension mean curvature flow in Riemannian manifolds, proving limiting flow in Euclidean space.