Ilmanen's smooth-blowup conjecture for embedded hypersurfaces

Let an embedded hypersurface evolve by mean curvature flow in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1}, with ndleq6n dleq 6, and consider blow-ups at singularities. Ilmanen's smooth-blowup conjecture. The blow-ups are smooth for embedded hypersurfaces in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} up to ndleq6n dleq 6. The source states that this conjecture remains open for 3dleqndleq63 dleq n dleq 6; if it holds together with the multiplicity-one conjecture in these dimensions, then the mean curvature must blow up at the first finite singular time for a closed smooth embedded flow.

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Yongheng Han, “Singularities of mean curvature flow with bounded mean curvature and Morse index”, arXiv:2501.05489 (2026).

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