Infinite-Time Singularities with Vanishing Mean Curvature for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow in Gibbons--Hawking Spaces

Abstract

We construct infinite-time singularities with vanishing mean curvature for Lagrangian mean curvature flow in Gibbons--Hawking spaces. We consider circle-invariant Lagrangian $2$-spheres whose quotient curves are concave and are $C^2$-close to a collection of consecutive collinear segments. We prove that the corresponding flow exists smoothly for all time and converges to the associated $A_{n-1}$-chain of special Lagrangian spheres. Although the mean curvature converges uniformly to zero, the second fundamental form becomes unbounded. More precisely, $\log \max |A(\cdot ,t)|$ is comparable to $\sqrt{t}$ as $t\to \infty$. The proof is based on a one-parameter family of barrier curves and a detailed analysis of their asymptotics. In this way, we refine the infinite-time convergence picture arising in the work of Lotay and Oliveira by proving curvature blow-up and estimating its rate in this semi-stable case.

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