Uniqueness of Lagrangian self-expanders (Q371284): Difference between revisions

This paper studies Lagrangian self-expanders for the mean curvature flow in \(\mathbb{C}^n\). These are smooth real \(n\)-submanifolds \(L\subset\mathbb{C}^n\) which are Lagrangian and such that \(L_t=\sqrt{2t}L\) solves the mean curvature flow equation. Equivalently, the mean curvature vector \(H\) of \(L\) satisfies \(H(x)=x^{\perp}\), for all \(x\in L\), where \(x^{\perp}\) is the component of \(x\) which is normal to \(L\). Self-expanders are important because they arise as blowup limits of singularities of the mean-curvature flow. Recently, \textit{D. Joyce} et al. [J. Differ. Geom. 84, No. 1, 127--161 (2010; Zbl 1206.53071)] constructed examples of self-expanders which are asymptotic to a pair of Lagrangian planes \(P_1+P_2\). The main result is the following uniqueness result: If \(L\subset\mathbb{C}^2\) is a self-expander asymptotic to \(P_1+P_2\), such that neither \(P_1+P_2\) nor \(P_1-P_2\) are area-minimizing, and \(L\) has vanishing Maslov class, then \(L\) is unique and is one of the Joyce-Lee-Tsui examples. A similar result holds in \(\mathbb{C}^n,n\geq 3\), provided that \(L\) is sufficiently close in the \(C^2\) topology to the Joyce-Lee-Tsui expander.