Immersed self-shrinkers

Drugan, Gregory; Kleene, Stephen

doi:10.1090/tran/6907

Immersed self-shrinkers
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Abstract:

We construct infinitely many complete, immersed self-shrinkers with rotational symmetry for each of the following topological types: the sphere, the plane, the cylinder, and the torus.

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