Title: Infinite-time
Singularities of Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow
Abstract: Special
Lagrangian submanifolds are volume-minimising submanifolds of Calabi-Yau
manifolds, with important applications to theoretical physics. In a series of
papers released two decades ago, Dominic Joyce considers the problem of
desingularising special Lagrangian submanifolds in Calabi-Yau manifolds with
isolated conical singularities, by gluing in suitable smooth, asymptotically
conical special Lagrangians at the singular points. He found that in certain
cases, when a topological obstruction vanishes, this desingularisation
procedure may be carried out to produce nearby smooth special Lagrangians.
In new work with Chung-Jun Tsai and Wei-Bo Su
of National Taiwan University, we consider the complementary case of
`obstructed’ special Lagrangians, where Joyce’s result does not hold. Instead,
we construct examples for which the singular special Lagrangian may be viewed
as the infinite-time singularity of a mean curvature flow. These are the first
constructed examples of infinite-time singularities of Lagrangian mean
curvature flows.