Sharp entropy constant conjecture for ancient curve shortening flows

Let Mt1oindentRNM_t^1 oindent\subset \mathbb{R}^N be an ancient curve shortening flow, and let λ(Mt)\lambda(M_t) denote its entropy. Suppose that MtM_t does not lie in a lower-dimensional Euclidean subspace.

Sharp constant conjecture. The sharp value of the universal constant C1C_1 in the Colding–Minicozzi codimension bound is

C1=2λ(S1).C_1=\frac{2}{\lambda(S^1)}.

In particular,

suptλ(Mt)N2λ(S1).\sup_t\lambda(M_t)\geq\frac{N}{2}\lambda(S^1).

This conjecture proposes sharpness of the entropy-dependent Euclidean-subspace dimension bound for ancient one-dimensional mean curvature flows; the torus curve examples and the shrinking circle give the matching lower bound currently described in the source.

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Primary source

Douglas Stryker and Ao Sun, “Codimension Bounds and Rigidity of Ancient Mean Curvature Flows by the Tangent Flow at -”, arXiv:1909.02535 (2021).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1908.02688, arXiv:1207.4529.

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