On short time existence of Lagrangian mean curvature flow

Abstract

We consider a short time existence problem motivated by a conjecture of Joyce. Specifically we prove that given any compact Lagrangian $L\subset \mathbb{C}^n$ with a finite number of singularities, each asymptotic to a pair of non-area-minimising, transversally intersecting Lagrangian planes, there is a smooth Lagrangian mean curvature flow existing for some positive time, that attains $L$ as $t \searrow 0$ as varifolds, and smoothly locally away from the singularities.