Uniqueness of tangent planes and (non-)removable singularities at infinity for collapsed translators

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Autori principali: Gama, Eddygledson Souza, Martín, Francisco, Møller, Niels Martin
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author Gama, Eddygledson Souza
Martín, Francisco
Møller, Niels Martin
author_facet Gama, Eddygledson Souza
Martín, Francisco
Møller, Niels Martin
contents We show that mean curvature flow translators may exhibit non-removable singularities at infinity, due to jump discontinuities in their asymptotic profiles, and that oscillation can persist so as to yield a continuum of subsequential limit tangent planes. Nonetheless, we prove that as time $t\to\pm \infty$, any finite entropy, finite genus, embedded, collapsed translating soliton in $\mathbb{R}^3$ converges to a uniquely determined collection of planes. This requires global analysis of quasilinear soliton equations with non-perturbative drifts, which we analyze via sharp non-standard elliptic decay estimates for the drift Laplacian, implying improvements on the Evans-Spruck and Ecker-Huisken estimates in the soliton setting, and exploiting a link from potential theory of the Yukawa equation to heat flows with $L^\infty$-data on non-compact slice curves of these solitons. The structure theorem follows: such solitons decompose at infinity into standard regions asymptotic to planes or grim reaper cylinders. As one application, we classify collapsed translators of entropy two with empty limits as $t\to +\infty$.
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spellingShingle Uniqueness of tangent planes and (non-)removable singularities at infinity for collapsed translators
Gama, Eddygledson Souza
Martín, Francisco
Møller, Niels Martin
Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53A10, 53E10 (49Q05, 53C42)
We show that mean curvature flow translators may exhibit non-removable singularities at infinity, due to jump discontinuities in their asymptotic profiles, and that oscillation can persist so as to yield a continuum of subsequential limit tangent planes. Nonetheless, we prove that as time $t\to\pm \infty$, any finite entropy, finite genus, embedded, collapsed translating soliton in $\mathbb{R}^3$ converges to a uniquely determined collection of planes. This requires global analysis of quasilinear soliton equations with non-perturbative drifts, which we analyze via sharp non-standard elliptic decay estimates for the drift Laplacian, implying improvements on the Evans-Spruck and Ecker-Huisken estimates in the soliton setting, and exploiting a link from potential theory of the Yukawa equation to heat flows with $L^\infty$-data on non-compact slice curves of these solitons. The structure theorem follows: such solitons decompose at infinity into standard regions asymptotic to planes or grim reaper cylinders. As one application, we classify collapsed translators of entropy two with empty limits as $t\to +\infty$.
title Uniqueness of tangent planes and (non-)removable singularities at infinity for collapsed translators
topic Differential Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
53A10, 53E10 (49Q05, 53C42)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11473