Rigidity of generic singularities of mean curvature flow (Q2354713)

Shrinkers are special solutions of the mean curvature flow (MCF) that evolve by rescaling and model the singularities of MCF. The authors proved that round cylinders \(S^k\times\mathbb R^{n-k}\) are rigid shrinkers in the sense that any other shrinker which is sufficiently close to one of these round cylinders on a large but compact set must itself be a round cylinder. This seems to be the first general rigidity theorem for singularities of a nonlinear geometric flow.