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The (p;m)-width of Riemannian manifolds and its realization

Differential Geometry 2018-07-02 v1

Abstract

While studying the existence of closed geodesics and minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds, the concept of width was introduced in different contexts. Generally, the width is realized by the energy of the closed geodesics or the volume of minimal hypersurfaces, which are found by the Minimax argument. Recently, Marques and Neves used the pp-width to prove the existence of infinite many minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. However, whether the pp-width can be realized as the volume of minimal hypersurfaces is not known yet. We introduced the concept of the (p,m)(p, m)-width which can be viewed as the stratification of the pp-width, and proved that the (p,m)(p, m)-width can be realized as the volume of minimal hypersurfaces with multiplicities.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06509,
  title  = {The (p;m)-width of Riemannian manifolds and its realization},
  author = {Guoyi Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06509},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

21 pages, to appear on Indiana Univ. Math. J. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1311.6501 by other authors