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

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Abstract: We consider ancient noncollapsed mean curvature flows in mathbbR4 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 mathbbR2imesS1(sqrt2) and prove that for auoinfty we have the fine asymptotics u(y,heta,au)=(yopQy2extrmtr(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 mathbbR4 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 mathbbRimes2d-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 mathbbRimes2d-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 auoinfty 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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