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Counting minimal surfaces in negatively curved 3-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2020-02-05 v1 Dynamical Systems Geometric Topology

Abstract

We introduced an asymptotic quantity that counts area-minimizing surfaces in negatively curved closed 3-manifolds and show that quantity to only be minimized, among all metrics of sectional curvature less than or equal -1, by the hyperbolic metric.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01062,
  title  = {Counting minimal surfaces in negatively curved 3-manifolds},
  author = {Danny Calegari and Fernando C. Marques and André Neves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01062},
  year   = {2020}
}

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27 pages

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