On mean curvature flow translators with prescribed ends

TL;DR

This paper constructs families of mean curvature flow translators with prescribed asymptotic ends based on self-shrinkers, revealing non-uniqueness phenomena and decompositions of Euclidean space into translator sets.

Contribution

It introduces a method to generate families of translators asymptotic to given self-shrinkers, addressing a long-standing question and exploring non-uniqueness through fattening phenomena.

Findings

Constructed I-dimensional families of translators asymptotic to S×R.

Decomposed Euclidean space into families of closed sets containing translators.

Identified non-generic fattening phenomena leading to non-uniqueness.

Abstract

Given a smooth closed embedded self-shrinker $S$ with index $I$ in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, we construct an $I$-dimensional family of complete translators polynomially asymptotic to $S\times\mathbb{R}$ at infinity, which answers a long-standing question by Ilmanen. We further prove that $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ can be decomposed in many ways into a one-parameter family of closed sets $\coprod_{a\in \mathbb{R}} T_a$, and each closed set $T_a$ contains a complete translator asymptotic to $S\times\mathbb{R}$ at infinity. If the closed set $T_a$ fattens, namely it has nonempty interior, then there are at least two translators asymptotic to each other at an exponential rate, which can be viewed as a kind of nonuniqueness. We show that this fattening phenomenon is non-generic but indeed happens.