English

The min--max construction of minimal surfaces

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v2 Differential Geometry Geometric Topology

Abstract

In this paper we survey with complete proofs some well--known, but hard to find, results about constructing closed embedded minimal surfaces in a closed 3-dimensional manifold via min--max arguments. This includes results of J. Pitts, F. Smith, and L. Simon and F. Smith.

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@article{arxiv.math/0303305,
  title  = {The min--max construction of minimal surfaces},
  author = {Tobias H. Colding and Camillo De Lellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0303305},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

42 pages, 13 figures

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