Uniqueness of Blowups for Forced Mean Curvature Flow
Abstract We prove uniqueness of tangent cones for forced mean curvature flow, at both closed self-shrinkers and round cylindrical self-shrinkers, in any codimension. The corresponding results for mean curvature flow in Euclidean space were proven by Schulze and Colding–Minicozzi, respectively. We adapt their methods to handle the presence of the forcing term, which vanishes in the blow-up limit but complicates the analysis along the rescaled flow. Our results naturally include the case of mean curvature flows in Riemannian manifolds.
Authors
- Jonathan J. Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3214-0118)
- Sven Hirsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1949-4971)
Institutions
- University of Washington (US)
- Institute for Advanced Study (US)
- EarthTech International (United States) (US)
- Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Mathematics Research Notices
- Published
- 2025-01-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf023
- Primary Topic
- Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00