Asymptotic structure conjecture for two-dimensional self-shrinkers

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Let Σ⊂R3\Sigma\subset\mathbb{R}^3 be a complete noncompact properly embedded self-shrinker with finite genus. Here a self-shrinker satisfies

H=12⟨x,n⟩,H=\frac{1}{2}\langle\mathbf{x},\mathbf{n}\rangle,

where n\mathbf{n} is the unit normal, H=div⁡nH=\operatorname{div}\mathbf{n} is the mean curvature, and x\mathbf{x} is the position vector. Suppose that outside some closed ball, Σ\Sigma decomposes into finitely many connected components UiU_i.

Asymptotic structure conjecture. For each UiU_i, either, as λ→∞\lambda\to\infty, λ−1Ui\lambda^{-1}U_i converges locally smoothly to a cone smooth except at the origin 0\mathbf{0}, or there exists a unit vector vi\mathbf{v}_i such that, as λ→∞\lambda\to\infty, Ui−λviU_i-\lambda\mathbf{v}_i converges locally smoothly to the self-shrinking cylinder with axis parallel to vi\mathbf{v}_i.

This conjecture concerns the classification of ends of properly embedded self-shrinkers and their geometry at infinity. It is motivated by rigidity results for self-shrinkers asymptotic to the same cone or cylinder, but the source provides no resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

References

Primary source

Lu Wang, “Geometry of Two-dimensional Self-shrinkers”, arXiv:1505.00133 (2015).

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