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Frankel property and Maximum Principle at Infinity for complete minimal hypersurfaces

Differential Geometry 2024-06-27 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we study complete minimal hypersurfaces in Riemannian nn-manifolds Mn\mathcal{M}^n for dimensions 4n74 \leq n \leq 7, and we obtain some results in the spirit of known work for n=3n=3. Key contributions include extending the work of Anderson and Rodr\'{i}guez to higher dimensions. Specifically, we show that in four-dimensional manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature and positive scalar curvature, two disjoint properly embedded minimal hypersurfaces bound a slab isometric to the product of one hypersurface with an interval. Our results are grounded in a maximum principle at infinity for two-sided, parabolic, properly embedded minimal hypersurfaces in complete Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry, generalizing the work of Mazet in dimension three to higher dimensions. We also leverage the recent classification of complete two-sided stable minimal hypersurfaces by Chodosh, Li, and Stryker.

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@article{arxiv.2211.06392,
  title  = {Frankel property and Maximum Principle at Infinity for complete minimal hypersurfaces},
  author = {José M. Espinar and Harold Rosenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06392},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Major revision from the first version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T05:41:57.919Z