Ancient solutions to mean curvature flow for isoparametric submanifolds

Abstract

Mean curvature flow for isoparametric submanifolds in Euclidean spaces and spheres was studied in Liu and Terng (Duke Math J 147(1):157–179, 2009). In this paper, we will show that all these solutions are ancient solutions and study their limits as time goes to negative infinity. We also discuss rigidity of ancient mean curvature flows for hypersurfaces in spheres and its relation to the Chern’s conjecture on the norm of the second fundamental forms of minimal hypersurfaces in spheres.