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Weyl Law and convergence in the classical limit for min-max nonlocal minimal surfaces

Differential Geometry 2025-10-14 v4 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We study nonlocal minimal surfaces as a new approximation theory for the area functional, and more specifically in the context of Yau's conjecture on the existence of minimal surfaces in closed three-dimensional manifolds. This programme offers an alternative to the Almgren--Pitts and Allen--Cahn approaches, with advantageous features both from the existence and regularity viewpoints. We build on recent work in which the author and collaborators constructed infinitely many nonlocal ss-minimal hypersurfaces (via min-max methods) on any closed nn-dimensional Riemannian manifold MM, establishing a full analogue of Yau's conjecture for s(0,1)s\in(0,1). The present article first proves a Weyl-type Law for the fractional perimeters of these hypersurfaces. The rest -- and main part -- of the article is devoted to obtaining uniform estimates (in the classical limit s1s\to 1) for min-max ss-minimal surfaces in closed three-manifolds, eventually establishing their convergence to smooth, classical minimal surfaces. We recover in particular recent results on existence, generic density and equidistribution of minimal surfaces, which are a strong form of Yau's conjecture in this setting.

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@article{arxiv.2406.12162,
  title  = {Weyl Law and convergence in the classical limit for min-max nonlocal minimal surfaces},
  author = {Enric Florit-Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.12162},
  year   = {2025}
}

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