Generating Shrinkers by Mean Curvature Flow
arXiv:2502.20340
Abstract
We prove existence for many examples of shrinkers by producing compact, smoothly embedded surfaces that, under mean curvature flow, develop singularities at which the shrinkers occur as blowups.
50 pages, 9 figures. The new version (January 20, 2026) incorporates many small changes suggested by the referees