Ilmanen's multiplicity-one conjecture for mean curvature flow

Consider the mean curvature flow of embedded hypersurfaces, and let a blowup limit mean a limit obtained by parabolic rescaling near a singularity, counted with its varifold multiplicity. Ilmanen's multiplicity-one conjecture. For the mean curvature flow of embedded hypersurfaces all blowup limits have multiplicity one. The conjecture is proved in R3\mathbb{R}^3, while the source identifies it as open in Rd\mathbb{R}^d for d4d\geq4 and notes that higher-dimensional cases require new ideas.

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Primary source

Robert Haslhofer, “Mean curvature flow through singularities”, arXiv:2510.01355 (2025).

Additional references

8 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2312.02106, arXiv:2004.03769, arXiv:1811.08654, arXiv:1810.08114, arXiv:1810.08467, arXiv:1001.3682, arXiv:0908.3788.

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