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Title: 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.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1926686
PAR ID:
10625808
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Oxford University Press
Date Published:
Journal Name:
International Mathematics Research Notices
Volume:
2025
Issue:
4
ISSN:
1073-7928
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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