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

DOI10.1002/CPA.22140zbMATH Open1530.35136arXiv2107.04443OpenAlexW4386440369MaRDI QIDQ6180715FDOQ6180715

Authors: Wenkui Du, Robert Haslhofer 

Publication date: 2 January 2024

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

classification problembubble-sheet function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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