Uniqueness of grim hyperplanes for mean curvature flows

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Abstract: In this paper we show that an immersed nontrivial translating soliton for mean curvature flow in mathbbRn+1(n=2,3) is a grim hyperplane if and only if it is mean convex and has weighted total extrinsic curvature of at most quadratic growth. For an embedded translating soliton Sigma with nonnegative scalar curvature, we prove that if the mean curvature of Sigma does not change signs on each end, then Sigma must have positive scalar curvature unless it is either a hyperplane or a grim hyperplane.


In this paper, the authors study nontrivial translating solitons, that is, complete connected isometrically immersed hypersurfaces \((\Sigma,\Phi)\) in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) with mean curvature vector satisfying \(\vec{H}=w^\perp\), where \(w\in\mathbb R^{n+1}\) is a unitary vector and \(w^\perp\) stands for the orthogonal projection of \(w\) onto the normal bundle of \(\Phi\). The paper contains two main results. Theorem 1. Let \(\Phi:\Sigma\to\mathbb R^{n+1}\) be a translating soliton, with \(n=2\) or 3, which is not a hyperplane. Then \(\Sigma\) is a grim hyperplane if and only if \(H=-\langle w,\nu\rangle\geq0\) and there exists \(C>0\) such that \[ \int_{B_R}|A|^2e^{-f}\leq CR^2, \] for all \(R\) sufficiently large, where \(B_R\) is the geodesic ball of radius \(R\) and \(f(x)=-\langle x,w\rangle\). Recall that a grim hyperplane in \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) is a hypersurface \(\mathcal G\subset\mathbb R^{n+1}\) which can be represented parametrically via the embedding \(\Phi:(-\frac{\pi}2,\frac{\pi}2)\times\mathbb R^{n-1}\to\mathbb R^{n+1}\) defined by \[ \Phi(t,y_1,\dots,y_{n-1})=(t,y_1,\dots,y_{n-1},-\ln(\cos t)). \] Theorem 2. Let \((\Sigma^n,g)\) be an embedded translating soliton with nonnegative scalar curvature \(S\). Assume \(H\) does not change signs on each end. Then either \(\Sigma\) is a hyperplane or a grim hyperplane; or \(\Sigma\) has positive scalar curvature.











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