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

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Let Mn⊂Rn+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 n≤6n\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.

References

Primary source

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).

Additional references

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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