Nonsmooth subvariety conjecture for higher cylindrical singular strata
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.
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Ao Sun, Zhihan Wang and Jinxin Xue, “Regularity of cylindrical singular sets of mean curvature flow”, arXiv:2509.01707 (2025).
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