Mean curvature flows with prescribed singular sets

Abstract

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily $C^\infty$-close to the Euclidean metric, whose first-time singular set is exactly $K \times \{0\}$.