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Existence of Good Sweepouts on Closed Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2009-07-29 v2 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

In this note we establish estimates for the harmonic map heat flow from S1S^1 into a closed manifold, and use it to construct sweepouts with the following good property: each curve in the tightened sweepout, whose energy is close to the maximal energy of curves in the sweepout, is itself close to a closed geodesic.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2724,
  title  = {Existence of Good Sweepouts on Closed Manifolds},
  author = {Longzhi Lin and Lu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2724},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages; added reference; corrected typos