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A proof of the multiplicity one conjecture for min-max minimal surfaces in arbitrary codimension

Differential Geometry 2020-12-16 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Given any admissible kk-dimensional family of immersions of a given closed oriented surface into an arbitrary closed Riemannian manifold, we prove that the corresponding min-max width for the area is achieved by a smooth (possibly branched) immersed minimal surface with multiplicity one and Morse index bounded by kk.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04205,
  title  = {A proof of the multiplicity one conjecture for min-max minimal surfaces in arbitrary codimension},
  author = {Alessandro Pigati and Tristan Rivière},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04205},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

34 pages (major improvements in the presentation: several typos fixed, few proofs expanded, added explanatory Subsection 5.1)