Rigidity and non-existence results for collapsed translators

Abstract

We prove a rigidity result for mean curvature self-translating solitons, characterizing the grim reaper cylinder as the only finite entropy self-translating 2-surface in ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ of width $\ddot{I}€$ and bounded from below. The proof makes use of parabolicity in a weighted setting applied to a suitable universally $L$-superharmonic function defined on translaters in such slabs.

To appear in Int. Math. Res. Not. Final, accepted version, updated to reflect referee remarks