Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

A. Mramor - S. Wang

On the topological rigidity of self shrinkers in $\mathbb{R}^3$

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Journal: International Mathematics Research Notices
Volume: 2020
Pages: 1933–1941
Year: 2017

ArXiv: 1708.06581 PDF

Abstract:

In this note we show that compact self shrinkers in $\mathbb{R}^3$ are "topologically standard" in that any genus $g$ compact self shrinker is ambiently isotopic to the standard genus $g$ embedded surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$. As a consequence self shrinking tori are unknotted.