Uniqueness of ancient solutions to Gauss curvature flow asymptotic to a cylinder

Abstract

We address the classification of ancient solutions to the Gauss curvature flow under the assumption that the solutions are contained in a cylinder of bounded cross section. For each cylinder of convex bounded cross-section, we show that there are only two ancient solutions which are asymptotic to this cylinder: the non-compact translating soliton and the compact oval solution obtained by gluing two translating solitons approaching each other from time $-\infty$ from two opposite ends.

v2 Mistypes corrected. Lemma 2.6 has been added. The proof of Proposition 3.8 has been simplified v3 Section 6 is revised. Mistypes were corrected