A stable self-shrinking Möbius bundle in ${\mathbb{R}}^4$

Abstract

We prove the linear stability of an embedded mean curvature flow shrinker in ${\mathbb{R}}^4$ with the topology of the Möbius bundle. This provides a non-flat, non-spherical stable shrinker in higher codimension, in sharp contrast with the classification of stable hypersurface shrinkers. Topologically, the Möbius shrinker models the reversal of a real blow-up, suggesting that stable higher-codimension singularities may encode non-trivial topological operations under mean curvature flow.

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