We study the mean curvature evolution of smooth, closed, twoconvex hypersurfaces in Rn+1 for n ≥ 3.Within this framework we effect a reconciliation between the flow with surgeries—recently constructed by Huisken and Sinestrari in [HS3]—and the wellknown weak solution of the level-set flow: we prove that the two solutions agree in an appropriate limit of the surgery parameters and in a precise quantitative sense. Our proof relies on geometric estimates for certain Lp-norms of the mean curvature which are of independent interest even in the setting of classicalmean curvature flow. We additionally show how our construction can be used to pass these estimates to limits and produce regularity results for the weak solution.

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In this note we prove a conjecture of Kashiwara, which states that the Euler class of a coherent analytic sheaf F on a complex manifold X is the product of the Chern character of F with the Todd class of X. As a corollary, we obtain a functorial proof of the Grothendieck–Riemann–Roch theorem in Hodge cohomology for complex manifolds.

We study the uniqueness of minimal submanifolds and the stability of the mean curvature flow in several well-known model spaces of manifolds of special holonomy. These include the Stenzel metric on the cotangent bundle of spheres, the Calabi metric on the cotangent bundle of complex projective spaces, and the Bryant--Salamon metrics on vector bundles over certain Einstein manifolds. In particular, we show that the zero sections, as calibrated submanifolds with respect to their respective ambient metrics, are unique among compact minimal submanifolds and are dynamically stable under the mean curvature flow. The proof relies on intricate interconnections of the Ricci flatness of the ambient space and the extrinsic geometry of the calibrated submanifolds.

We construct a new family of high genus examples of free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean unit 3-ball by desingularizing the intersection of a coaxial pair of a critical catenoid and an equatorial disk. The surfaces are constructed by singular perturbation methods and have three boundary components. They are the free boundary analogue of the Costa-Hoffman-Meeks surfaces and the surfaces constructed by Kapouleas by desingularizing coaxial catenoids and planes. It is plausible that the minimal surfaces we constructed here are the same as the ones obtained recently by Ketover using the min-max method.