Colding–Ilmanen–Minicozzi–White entropy conjecture for closed hypersurfaces

Let MnRn+1M^n\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1} be a closed hypersurface, and let λ\lambda denote entropy. The cited theorem asserts that, for a closed self-shrinker, the round sphere minimizes entropy and that sufficiently low entropy forces diffeomorphism to a sphere. Colding–Ilmanen–Minicozzi–White entropy conjecture. Theorem 1 holds with ϵ=0\epsilon=0 for any closed hypersurface MnM^n with n6n\leq 6. This would establish the sphere as the entropy minimizer among closed hypersurfaces in dimensions at most six; the source records it as open there, while noting that the curve case is known.

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Tobias Holck Colding, William P. Minicozzi and Erik Kjaer Pedersen, “Mean curvature flow as a tool to study topology of 4-manifolds”, arXiv:1208.5988 (2012).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1205.2043.

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