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Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in positive Ricci curvature

Author(s): Coda Marques, Fernando; Neves, André

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Abstract: In the early 1980s, S. T. Yau conjectured that any compact Riemannian three-manifold admits an infinite number of closed immersed minimal surfaces. We use min-max theory for the area functional to prove this conjecture in the positive Ricci curvature setting. More precisely, we show that every compact Riemannian manifold with positive Ricci curvature and dimension at most seven contains infinitely many smooth, closed, embedded minimal hypersurfaces. In the last section we mention some open problems related with the geometry of these minimal hypersurfaces.
Publication Date: Aug-2017
Electronic Publication Date: 25-Jan-2017
Citation: Marques, Fernando C, Neves, Andre. (2017). Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in positive Ricci curvature. INVENTIONES MATHEMATICAE, 209 (577 - 616. doi:10.1007/s00222-017-0716-6
DOI: doi:10.1007/s00222-017-0716-6
ISSN: 0020-9910
EISSN: 1432-1297
Pages: 577 - 616
Type of Material: Journal Article
Journal/Proceeding Title: INVENTIONES MATHEMATICAE
Version: Author's manuscript



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