On the entropy of closed hypersurfaces and singular self-shrinkers

DOI10.4310/JDG/1583377215zbMATH Open1434.53098arXiv1607.07760OpenAlexW3009684982WikidataQ115164989 ScholiaQ115164989MaRDI QIDQ2305595FDOQ2305595

Authors: Jonathan J. H. Zhu 

Publication date: 11 March 2020

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Self-shrinkers are the special solutions of mean curvature flow in $mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ that evolve by shrinking homothetically; they serve as singularity models for the flow. The entropy of a hypersurface introduced by Colding-Minicozzi is a Lyapunov functional for the mean curvature flow, and is fundamental to their theory of generic mean curvature flow. In this paper we prove that a conjecture of Colding-Ilmanen-Minicozzi-White, namely that any closed hypersurface in $mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ has entropy at least that of the round sphere, holds in any dimension $n$. This result had previously been established for the cases $nleq6$ by Bernstein-Wang using a carefully constructed weak flow. The main technical result of this paper is an extension of Colding-Minicozzi's classification of entropy-stable self-shrinkers to the singular setting. In particular, we show that any entropy-stable self-shrinker whose singular set satisfies Wickramasekera's $alpha$-structural hypothesis must be a round cylinder $mathbf{S}^k(sqrt2k)imesmathbf{R}^{n-k}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07760

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyentropy-stable self-shrinkersmean curvature flow in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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