Complete self-shrinkers confined into some regions of the space (Q2436531)

A self-shrinker is an isometrically immersed connected hypersurface \(x: \Sigma^m \to \mathbb{R}^{m+1}\) whose outer unit normal vector field \(\nu\) and mean curvature \(H\) satisfy \(\langle x, \nu \rangle = -H\). The authors investigate sufficient conditions for the compactness of \(x\). Examples are: ``The norm \(| {\mathbf A} |\) of the second fundamental form is in \(L^p(\Sigma)\) for some \(p \geq m\)'' or ``Outside a sufficiently large ball, this norm is less than \(1\).'' The authors also derive a strong maximum principle for self-shrinkers contained in dilated cylinders, they provide sufficient conditions for a transversal intersection of the self-shrinker with hyperplanes through the origin and obtain information on the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian for (components of) this intersection. Motivation for this investigation comes from a conjecture by \textit{H.-D. Cao} and \textit{H. Li} [Calc. Var. Partial Differ. Equ. 46, No. 3--4, 879--889 (2013; Zbl 1271.53064)] which is known to be equivalent to the statement that every complete self-shrinker in a ball of \(\mathbb{R}^{m+1}\) is compact.