The entropy of the angenent torus is approximately 1.85122

DOI10.1080/10586458.2019.1583616zbMATH Open1483.53106arXiv1808.08163OpenAlexW3098183438WikidataQ128029075 ScholiaQ128029075MaRDI QIDQ3383705FDOQ3383705

Yakov Berchenko-Kogan

Publication date: 16 December 2021

Published in: Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: To study the singularities that appear in mean curvature flow, one must understand self-shrinkers, surfaces that shrink by dilations under mean curvature flow. The simplest examples of self-shrinkers are spheres and cylinders. In 1989, Angenent constructed the first nontrivial example of a self-shrinker, a torus. A key quantity in the study of the formation of singularities is the entropy, defined by Colding and Minicozzi based on work of Huisken. The values of the entropy of spheres and cylinders have explicit formulas, but there is no known formula for the entropy of the Angenent torus. In this work, we numerically estimate the entropy of the Angenent torus using the discrete Euler-Lagrange equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08163

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zbMATH Keywords

variational integratormean curvature flowdiscrete Euler-Lagrange equationsangenent torus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical problems in dynamical systems (65P99) Hamilton's principle (70H25) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to numerical analysis (65-04) Flows related to mean curvature (53E10)

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Cited In (5)

• Entropy bounds for self-shrinkers with symmetries
• Entropy bounds, compactness and finiteness theorems for embedded self-shrinkers with rotational symmetry
• Bounds on the index of rotationally symmetric self-shrinking tori
• Noncompact self-shrinkers for mean curvature flow with arbitrary genus
• Numerically computing the index of mean curvature flow self-shrinkers

Uses Software

• SciPy

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