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In this paper, we study self-expanders for mean curvature flows. First we show the discreteness of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian on them. Next we give a universal lower bound of the bottom of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian and prove that this lower bound is achieved if and only if the self-expander is the Euclidean subspace through the origin. Further, for self-expanders of codimension 1, we prove an inequality between the bottom of the spectrum of the drifted Laplacian and the bottom of the spectrum of weighted stability operator and that the hyperplane through the origin is the unique self-expander where the equality holds. Also we prove the uniqueness of hyperplane through the origin for mean convex self-expanders under some condition on the square of the norm of the second fundamental form.
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Communicated by F.C. Marques.
The authors are partially supported by CNPq and Faperj of Brazil.
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Cheng, X., Zhou, D. Spectral properties and rigidity for self-expanding solutions of the mean curvature flows. Math. Ann. 371, 371–389 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-018-1662-3
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