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Existence of minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index

Differential Geometry 2016-05-25 v2

Abstract

We show that in a closed 3-manifold with a generic metric of positive Ricci curvature, there are minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index, which partially confirms a conjecture by F. Marques and A. Neves. We prove this by analyzing the lamination structure of the limit of minimal surfaces with bounded Morse index.

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@article{arxiv.1504.00970,
  title  = {Existence of minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index},
  author = {Haozhao Li and Xin Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00970},
  year   = {2016}
}

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