Ilmanen's mean-convex neighborhood conjecture

Consider a cylindrical singularity of mean curvature flow. A neighborhood is mean-convex when the flow in that neighborhood has the corresponding one-sided mean-convex orientation. Ilmanen's mean-convex neighborhood conjecture. Cylindrical singularities have a mean-convex neighborhood. The conjecture is known for neck singularities, meaning cylinders with only one R\mathbb{R}-factor, but remains open in general; the source describes a possible route to proving it in dimension four and eventually all dimensions.

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

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