Abstract. We investigate self-similar solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in Euclidean space. In the case of one dimensional planar solitons, we explicitly classify all homothetic solitons and translators. Generalizing Andrews' theorem that circles are the only compact homothetic planar solitons, we apply the Hsiung-Minkowski integral formula to prove the rigidity of the hypersphere in the class of compact expanders of codimension one. We also establish that the moduli space of compact expanding surfaces of codimension two is big. Finally, we update the list of Huisken-Ilmanen's rotational expanders by constructing new examples of complete expanders with rotational symmetry, including topological hypercylinders, called infinite bottles, that interpolate between two concentric round hypercylinders. Main resultsIn this paper, we study self-similar solutions to the inverse mean curvature flow in Euclidean space. After a brief introduction, we present an explicit classification of the one dimensional homothetic solitons (Theorem 5). Examples include circles, involutes of circles, and logarithmic spirals. Then, we prove that families of cycloids are the only translating solitons (Theorem 10), and we show how to construct translating surfaces via a tilted product of cyloids.Next, we consider the rigidity of homothetic solitons. In the class of closed homothetic solitons of codimension one, we prove that the round hyperspheres are rigid (Theorem 12). For the higher codimension case, we observe that any minimal submanifold of the standard hypersphere is an expander, so in light of Lawson's construction [18] of minimal surfaces in S 3 , there are compact embedded expanders for any genus in R 4 . We conclude with an investigation of homothetic solitons with rotational symmetry. First, we construct new examples of complete expanders with rotational symmetry, called infinite bottles, which are topological hypercylinders that interpolate between two concentric round hypercylinders (Theorem 15). Then, we show how the analysis in the proof of Theorem 15 can be used to construct other examples of complete expanders with rotational symmetry, including the examples from Huisken-Ilmanen [12]. Inverse mean curvature flow -history and applicationsRound hyperspheres in Euclidean space expand under the inverse mean curvature flow (IMCF) with an exponentially increasing radius. This behavior is typical for the flow. Gerhardt [10] and Urbas [21] showed that compact, star-shaped initial hypersurfaces with strictly positive mean curvature converge under IMCF, after suitable rescaling, to a round sphere.Strictly positive mean curvature is an essential condition. For the IMCF to be parabolic, the mean curvature must be strictly positive. Huisken and Ilmanen [15] proved that smoothness at later times is characterised by the mean curvature remaining bounded strictly away from zero (see also Smoczyk [22]). Within the class of strictly mean-convex surfaces, however, a solution to inverse mean curvature flow will, in general, become sin...

Abstract. We construct infinitely many complete, immersed self-shrinkers with rotational symmetry for each of the following topological types: the sphere, the plane, the cylinder, and the torus.

We construct an immersed and non-embedded S 2 self-shrinker.This work was partially supported by NSF RTG [DMS-0838212].

We use variational methods and a modified curvature flow to give an alternative proof of the existence of a self-shrinking torus under mean curvature flow. As a consequence of the proof, we establish an upper bound for the weighted energy of our shrinking doughnuts.