Complexity of Submanifolds and Colding-Minicozzi Entropy

Wed Apr 19, 2023 4:15 p.m.—5:15 p.m.
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Seminar: 
Colloquium

Event time: 
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 4:15pm

Location: 
LOM 214

Speaker: 
Jacob Bernstein

Speaker affiliation: 
Johns Hopkins University

Event description: 
Given a submanifold of Euclidean space, Colding and Minicozzi defined its entropy to be the supremum of the Gaussian weighted surface areas of all of its translations and dilations. While initially introduced to study singularities of mean curvature flow, it has proven to be an interesting geometric measure of complexity. In this talk I will survey some of the recent progress made on studying the Colding-Minicozzi entropy of hypersurfaces. In particular, I will discuss a series of work by Lu Wang and myself showing closed hypersurfaces with small entropy are simple in various senses.