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We study geometric properties of complete non-compact bounded self-shrinkers and obtain natural restrictions that force these hypersurfaces to be compact. Furthermore, we observe that, to a certain extent, complete self-shrinkers intersect transversally a hyperplane through the origin. When such an intersection is compact, we deduce spectral information on the natural drifted Laplacian associated to the self-shrinker. These results go in the direction of verifying the validity of a conjecture by H.D. Cao concerning the polynomial volume growth of complete self-shrinkers. A finite strong maximum principle in case the self-shrinker is confined into a cylindrical product is also presented.
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The authors would like to thank Pacelli Bessa, Debora Impera and Giona Veronelli for their interest in this work and for several suggestions that have improved the presentation of the paper. Further suggestions concerning the presentation are due to the anonymous referee.
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Pigola, S., Rimoldi, M. Complete self-shrinkers confined into some regions of the space. Ann Glob Anal Geom 45, 47–65 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-013-9387-8
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