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We construct free boundary minimal disc stackings, with any number of strata, in the three-dimensional Euclidean unit ball, and prove uniform, linear lower and upper bounds on the Morse index of all such surfaces. Among other things, our…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Alessandro Carlotto , Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

Fraser-Sargent surfaces are free boundary minimal surfaces in the four-dimensional unit Euclidean ball. Extended infinitely they define immersed minimal surfaces in the Euclidean space. In the present paper we compute the Morse index and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Vladimir Medvedev , Egor Morozov

In this paper, we consider locally wedge-shaped manifolds, which are Riemannian manifolds that are allowed to have both boundary and certain types of edges. We define and study the properties of free boundary minimal hypersurfaces inside…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Liam Mazurowski , Tongrui Wang

We prove a structural theorem that provides a precise local picture of how a sequence of closed embedded minimal hypersurfaces with uniformly bounded index (and volume if the ambient dimension is greater than three) in a Riemannian manifold…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Otis Chodosh , Daniel Ketover , Davi Maximo

We show that the Morse index of a closed minimal hypersurface in a four-dimensional Riemannian manifold cannot be bound in terms of the volume and the topological invariants of the hypersurface itself by presenting a method for constructing…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-04-09 Alessandro Carlotto

We adapt and extend the Montiel-Ros methodology to compact manifolds with boundary, allowing for mixed (including oblique) boundary conditions and also accounting for the action of a finite group $G$ together with an additional twisting…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Alessandro Carlotto , Mario B. Schulz , David Wiygul

For an immersed minimal surface in $\mathbb{R}^3$, we show that there exists a lower bound on its Morse index that depends on the genus and number of ends, counting multiplicity. This improves, in several ways, an estimate we previously…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Otis Chodosh , Davi Maximo

In this sequence, we first prove an abstract Morse index theorem in a Hilbert space modeling a variational problem with constraints. Then, our abstract formulation is applied to study several optimization setups including closed CMC…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Hung Tran , Detang Zhou

We consider unbranched Willmore surfaces in the Euclidean space that arise as inverted complete minimal surfaces with embedded planar ends. Several statements are proven about upper and lower bounds on the Morse Index - the number of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Jonas Hirsch , Elena Mäder-Baumdicker

In this paper, we prove uniform curvature estimates for immersed stable free boundary minimal hypersurfaces which satisfy a uniform area bound. Our result is a natural generalization of the celebrated Schoen-Simon-Yau interior curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Qiang Guang , Martin Li , Xin Zhou

In 1960s, Almgren initiated a program to find minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds using min-max method. This program was largely advanced by Pitts and Schoen-Simon in 1980s when the manifold has no boundary. In this paper, we finish…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Martin Li , Xin Zhou

In this work, we investigate the existence of compact free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces immersed in several domains. Using an original integral identity for compact free-boundary minimal hypersurfaces that are immersed in a domain whose…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Ezequiel Barbosa , Allan Freitas , Rodrigo Melo , Feliciano Vitório

Given a compact Riemannian manifold $M^{n+1}$ with dimension $3\leq n+1\leq 7$ and $\partial M\neq\emptyset$, the free boundary min-max theory built by Martin Man-Chun Li and Xin Zhou shows the existence of a smooth almost properly embedded…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Tongrui Wang

In this paper, we compute the Morse index for a free boundary minimal submanifold from data of two simpler problems. The first one is the corresponding problem with fixed boundary condition; and the second is associated with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Hung Tran

We prove that for an embedded unstable one-sided minimal hypersurface of the $(n+1)$-dimensional real projective space, the Morse index is at least $n+2$, and this bound is attained by the cubic isoparametric minimal hypersurfaces. We also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Shuli Chen

We study compactly free boundary minimal submanifolds in spherical caps $\Br$ and their geometric spectral properties. Following the foundational work of Fraser-Schoen \cite{FS2012}, Lima-Menezes \cite{LM23} established the connection…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Mateus Spezia

In this paper, we establish a min-max theory for constructing minimal disks with free boundary in any closed Riemannian manifold. The main result is an effective version of the partial Morse theory for minimal disks with free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Longzhi Lin , Ao Sun , Xin Zhou

We show that closed, immersed, minimal hypersurfaces in a compact symmetric space satisfy a lower bound on the index plus nullity, which depends linearly on their first Betti number. Moreover, if either the minimal hypersurface satisfies a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Ricardo A. E. Mendes , Marco Radeschi

In this paper, we prove that in any compact Riemannian manifold with smooth boundary, of dimension at least 3 and at most 7, there exist infinitely many almost properly embedded free boundary minimal hypersurfaces. This settles the free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Zhichao Wang

Is it possible to obtain unbounded minimal surfaces in certain asymptotically flat 3-manifolds as a limit of solutions to a natural mountain pass problem with diverging boundaries? In this work, we give evidence that this might be true by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-28 Rafael Montezuma