Angenent-Daskalopoulos-Sesum uniqueness conjecture for symmetric ancient ovals

Let an ancient oval be an ancient compact noncollapsed mean curvature flow that is not self-similar, and let 1kn1\leq k\leq n. An ancient oval is O(k)×O(n+1k)\mathrm{O}(k)\times \mathrm{O}(n+1-k)-symmetric if it is invariant under this product of orthogonal groups. Angenent-Daskalopoulos-Sesum's conjecture. O(k)×O(n+1k)\mathrm{O}(k)\times \mathrm{O}(n+1-k)-symmetric ancient ovals are unique up to time-shift and parabolic dilation. Ancient ovals are important as potential singularity models in mean-convex mean curvature flows and in the study of singularities. The analogous uniqueness statement is known under uniform two-convexity, while this general symmetric case is presented as a conjecture.

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Wenkui Du and Robert Haslhofer, “On uniqueness and nonuniqueness of ancient ovals”, arXiv:2105.13830 (2022).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1503.01178.

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