Mean-curvature blow-up conjecture for embedded flows in dimensions at most six

Let MtM_t be a closed smooth embedded mean curvature flow in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1}, with ndleq6n dleq 6, and suppose the flow develops a first finite singular time. Mean-curvature blow-up conjecture. The mean curvature blows up at the first finite singular time. The source describes this as a weaker conjecture, conditional on the smooth-blowup and multiplicity-one conjectures in dimensions at most six, and does not report a resolution.

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Primary source

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

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3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1505.07217, arXiv:1204.0106.

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