Mon, 02 Feb 2026
14:15
L4

Non-generic neck pinching in Lagrangian mean curvature flow

Spandan Ghosh
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
Abstract
Lagrangian mean curvature flow (LMCF) is a way to deform a Lagrangian submanifold inside a Calabi--Yau manifold according to the negative gradient of the area functional. There are influential conjectures about LMCF due to Thomas--Yau and Joyce, describing the long-time behaviour and singularities of the flow. By foundational work of Neves, Type I singularities are ruled out under mild assumptions, so it is important to construct examples of Type II singularities with a given blow-up model. In this talk, we describe a general method to construct examples of Lawlor neck pinching in LMCF in complex dimension at least 3. We employ a P.D.E. based approach to solve the problem, as an example of 'parabolic gluing'. The main technical tool we use is the notion of manifolds with corners and a-corners, as introduced by Joyce following earlier work of Melrose. Time permitting, we will discuss how one may construct examples of generic neck pinching.
Thu, 30 Apr 2026

14:00 - 15:00
(This talk is hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

TBA

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