Convexity of 2-convex translating solitons to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$

Abstract

We prove that any complete immersed globally orientable uniformly 2-convex translating soliton $\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ for the mean curvature flow is locally strictly convex. It follows that a uniformly 2-convex entire graphical translating soliton in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},\, n\geq 3 $ is the axisymmetric "bowl soliton".