Nonsmooth subvariety conjecture for higher cylindrical singular strata
Let and . For a mean curvature flow in , let denote its positive part of the -th cylindrical singular stratum. Higher-stratum nonsmoothness conjecture. There exists a mean curvature flow in such that is not a -dimensional submanifold but is a nonsmooth subvariety of dimension at most . The claim would show that the containment of in a -dimensional submanifold cannot generally be improved to equality; the source suggests examples analogous to intersecting curves and leaves the existence of such flows open.
References
Primary source
Ao Sun, Zhihan Wang and Jinxin Xue, “Regularity of cylindrical singular sets of mean curvature flow”, arXiv:2509.01707 (2025).
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