Lagrangian mean curvature flow of Whitney spheres (Q2632006): Difference between revisions

Let the orthogonal group \(\mathbb{O}(m)\) act on \(\mathbb{C}^m\) by \(A(x,y):=(Ax, Ay)\) for all \(A \in \mathbb{O}(m)\) and \(x, y \in \mathbb{R}^m\). An immersed Lagrangian submanifold in \(\mathbb{C}^m\) which is invariant under the group \(\mathbb{O}(m)\) is called equivariant. The Whitney sphere is an example. In this paper the authors study the Lagrangian mean curvature flow starting from an equivariant Lagrangian immersion of \(\mathbb{S}^m\) in \(\mathbb{C}^m\) with \(m>1\) such that the Ricci curvature satisfies a positivity condition. They show that the flow develops a type-II singularity which rescales to the product of a grim reaper with a flat Lagrangian subspace in \(\mathbb{C}^{m-1}\). The proof uses a detailed analysis of the evolution of the profile curves of the equivariant Lagrangian spheres.