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most citedRotational symmetry of ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in higher dimensions

16 citations · 18 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

math.DG2025

Free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces in spherical caps I: Low genus

Keaton Naff, Jonathan J. Zhu

This is the first of two articles in which we investigate the geometry of free boundary and capillary minimal surfaces in balls . In this article, we extend…

math.DG2025

Linear stability and instability of Kähler Ricci solitons

Keaton Naff, Tristan Ozuch

We show that the recently discovered BCCD shrinking soliton is linearly unstable, by extending the approach of \cite{chi04} and \cite{hm11}, via recent work the \cite{cm21} on grad…

math.DG2025

Linear stability of the blowdown Ricci shrinker in 4D

Keaton Naff, Tristan Ozuch

We prove that the four-dimensional blowdown shrinking Ricci soliton constructed by Feldman-Ilmanen-Knopf is strictly linearly stable in the sense of Cao-Hamilton-Ilmanen. This prov…

math.DG2025

Planarity and convexity for pinched ancient solutions of mean curvature flow

Tang-Kai Lee, Keaton Naff, Jingze Zhu

We prove a parabolically scale-invariant variation of the planarity estimate in \cite{Na22} for higher codimension mean curvature flow, borrowing ideas from work of Brendle--Huiske…

math.DG2024

Half-space intersection properties for minimal hypersurfaces

Keaton Naff, Jonathan J. Zhu

We prove ``half-space" intersection properties in three settings: the hemisphere, half-geodesic balls in space forms, and certain subsets of Gaussian space. For instance, any two e…

math.DG2022

Moving monotonicity formulae for minimal submanifolds in constant curvature

Keaton Naff, Jonathan J. Zhu

We discover new monotonicity formulae for minimal submanifolds in space forms, which imply the sharp area bound for minimal submanifolds through a prescribed point in a geodesic ba…

math.DG2022

The prescribed point area estimate for minimal submanifolds in constant curvature

Keaton Naff, Jonathan J. Zhu

We prove a sharp area estimate for minimal submanifolds that pass through a prescribed point in a geodesic ball in hyperbolic space, in any dimension and codimension. In certain ca…

math.DG2021

Canonical metrics and ambiKähler structures on 4-manifolds with symmetry

Keaton Naff, Brian Weber

For -invariant 4-metrics, we show that the -flat metrics are very different from the other canonical metrics (Bach-flat, Einstein, extremal Kähler, etc). We show every $…

math.DG2021

A local noncollapsing estimate for mean curvature flow

Simon Brendle, Keaton Naff

We prove a local version of the noncollapsing estimate for mean curvature flow. By combining our result with earlier work of X.-J. Wang, it follows that certain ancient convex solu…

math.DG2021

Uniqueness of compact ancient solutions to the higher dimensional Ricci flow

Simon Brendle, Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Keaton Naff +1

In this paper, we study the classification of -noncollapsed ancient solutions to n-dimensional Ricci flow on , extending the result in [13] to higher dimensions. We prove t…

math.DG2020★ 16 cited

Rotational symmetry of ancient solutions to the Ricci flow in higher dimensions

Simon Brendle, Keaton Naff

We extend the second part of \cite{Bre20} on the uniqueness of ancient -solutions to higher dimensions. In dimensions , an ancient -solution is a nonflat, complete,…

math.DG2020

A canonical neighborhood theorem for the mean curvature flow in higher codimension

Keaton Naff

In dimensions , we prove a canonical neighborhood theorem for the mean curvature flow of compact -dimensional submanifolds in satisfying a pinching cond…

math.DG2019

Singularity models of pinched solutions of mean curvature flow in higher codimension

Keaton Naff

We consider ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in () that are weakly convex, uniformly two-convex, and satisfy derivative estimates $|\nabla…

math.DG2019

A planarity estimate for pinched solutions of mean curvature flow

Keaton Naff

We show that the blow-ups of compact solutions to the mean curvature flow in initially satisfying the pinching condition for a suitable constant $c…

math.DG2019★ 2 cited

Shrinking Ricci solitons with positive isotropic curvature

Keaton Naff

We show that in dimensions , a non-flat complete gradient shrinking solitons with uniformly positive isotropic curvature (PIC) must be a quotient of either the round sph…