Hypersurfaces of low entropy
Speaker:
Jacob Bernstein, Johns Hopkins University
Date and Time:
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Stewart Library
Abstract:
The entropy is a natural geometric quantity introduced by Colding and Minicozzi and may be thought of as a rough measure of the complexity of a hypersurface of Euclidean space. It is closely related to the mean curvature flow. On the one hand, the entropy controls what types of singularities the flow develops. On the other, the flow may be used to study the entropy. In this talk I will survey some recent results with Lu Wang that show that hypersurfaces of low entropy can't be too complicated.