Wandering singularities
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Abstract: Parabolic geometric flows are smoothing for short time however, over long time, singularities are typically unavoidable, can be very nasty and may be impossible to classify. The idea of [CM6] and here is that, by bringing in the dynamical properties of the flow, we obtain also smoothing for large time for generic initial conditions. When combined with [CM1], this shows, in an important special case, the singularities are the simplest possible. The question of the dynamics of a singularity has two parts. One is: What are the dynamics near a singularity? The second is: What is the long time behavior? That is, if the flow leaves a neighborhood of a singularity, can it return at a much later time? The first question was addressed in [CM6] and the second here. Combined with [CM1], [CM6], we show that all other closed singularities than the (round) sphere have a neighborhood where `nearly every' closed hypersurface leaves under the flow and never returns, even to a dilated, rotated or translated copy of the singularity. In other words, it wanders off. In contrast, by Huisken, any closed hypersurface near a sphere remains close to a dilated or translated copy of the sphere at each time.
The authors study the long-time behavior near a singularity of the mean curvature flow. That is, if the flow leaves a neighbourhood of a singularity, can it return at a later time. The authors show that other than the round sphere all other closed singularities leave under the flow and never returns. In other words it wanders.
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