Hearing the shape of ancient noncollapsed flows in R4\mathbb {R}^{4}

DOI10.1002/CPA.22140MaRDI QIDQ6180715zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wenkui Du, Robert Haslhofer

Publication date 2 January 2024

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04443

zbMATH Keywords

bubble-sheet functionclassification problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quasilinear parabolic equations with mean curvature operator (35K93) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05)

Abstract: We consider ancient noncollapsed mean curvature flows in $mathbb{R}^4$ whose tangent flow at $-infty$ is a bubble-sheet. We carry out a fine spectral analysis for the bubble-sheet function $u$ that measures the deviation of the renormalized flow from the round cylinder $mathbb{R}^{2}imes{S}^1(sqrt2)$ and prove that for $auo-infty$ we have the fine asymptotics $u(y,heta,au)=(y^{o}pQy-2extrmtr(Q))/|au|+o(|au{|}^{-1})$, where $Q=Q(au)$ is a symmetric $2imes2$-matrix whose eigenvalues are quantized to be either 0 or $-1/sqrt8$. This naturally breaks up the classification problem for general ancient noncollapsed flows in $mathbb{R}^4$ into three cases depending on the rank of $Q$. In the case $mathrmrk(Q)=0$, generalizing a prior result of Choi, Hershkovits and the second author, we prove that the flow is either a round shrinking cylinder or $mathbbRimes$2d-bowl. In the case $mathrmrk(Q)=1$, under the additional assumption that the flow either splits off a line or is selfsimilarly translating, as a consequence of recent work by Angenent, Brendle, Choi, Daskalopoulos, Hershkovits, Sesum and the second author we show that the flow must be $mathbbRimes$2d-oval or belongs to the one-parameter family of 3d oval-bowls constructed by Hoffman-Ilmanen-Martin-White, respectively. Finally, in the case $mathrmrk(Q)=2$ we show that the flow is compact and $mathrmSO(2)$-symmetric and for $auo-infty$ has the same sharp asymptotics as the $mathrmO(2)imesmathrmO(2)$-symmetric ancient ovals constructed by Hershkovits and the second author. The full classification problem will be addressed in subsequent papers based on the results of the present paper.

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