Low-entropy shrinker classification in dimensions at most four

Let a shrinker be an nn-dimensional self-shrinking submanifold in Euclidean space, with arbitrary codimension, and let b[?]b[?] denote entropy. For nb[?]4nb[?]4, consider shrinkers whose entropy is less than b[?](S1)+ϵb[?]({\boldsymbol S}^1)+\epsilon.

Low-entropy cylinder conjecture. There exists ϵ>0\epsilon>0 such that, for n4n\leq 4 and in any codimension, the only shrinkers with entropy <λ(S1)+ϵ<\lambda({\boldsymbol S}^1)+\epsilon are the round generalized cylinders

S2kk×Rnk.{\boldsymbol S}^{k}_{\sqrt{2k}}\times {\boldsymbol R}^{n-k}.

The conjecture proposes a low-dimensional, arbitrary-codimension classification extending the known classification in R3\boldsymbol R^3. It was proven by Bernstein–Wang, so its database status is solved.

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Tobias Holck Colding and William P. Minicozzi, “Complexity of parabolic systems”, arXiv:1903.03499 (2019).

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