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Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the limit of a sequence of embedded, almost properly embedded free boundary minimal hypersurfaces, with uniform area and Morse index upper bound, always inherits a non-trivial…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Zhichao Wang

In this paper, we give a relationship between the eigenvalues of the Hodge Laplacian and the eigenvalues of the Jacobi operator for a free boundary minimal hypersurface of a Euclidean convex body. We then use this relationship to obtain new…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Pam Sargent

In this paper, we prove the existence of the free boundary minimal hypersurface of least area in compact manifolds with boundary. Such hypersurface can be viewed as the ground state of the volume spectrum introduced by Gromov. Moreover, we…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

By extending and generalising previous work by Ros and Savo, we describe a method to show that the Morse index of every closed minimal hypersurface on certain positively curved ambient manifolds is bounded from below by a linear function of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-28 Lucas Ambrozio , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

We prove that the index is bounded from below by a linear function of its first Betti number for any compact free boundary $f$-minimal hypersurface in certain positively curved weighted manifolds.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Niang Chen , Jianquan Ge , Miaomiao Zhang

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

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

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

In this paper, we give an improved Morse index bound of minimal hypersurfaces from Almgren-Pitts min-max construction in any closed Riemannian manifold $M^{n+1}$ $(n+1 \geq 3$), which generalizes a result by X. Zhou…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Yangyang Li

Given a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, we prove that the space of embedded, which may be improper, free boundary minimal hypersurfaces with uniform area and Morse index upper bound is compact in the sense of smoothly graphical…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Qiang Guang , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

In this note we investigate free boundary minimal surfaces in the Euclidean 3-space, and by using holomorphic techniques developed by Fraser and Schoen we prove that the free boundary minimal annulus is the critical catenoid.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Shuangqi Liu , Zuhuan Yu

We give a description of the structure of finite Morse index solutions to two free boundary problems in $\mathbb{R}^2$. These free boundary problems are models of phase transition and they are closely related to minimal hypersurfaces. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Kelei Wang

We construct a smooth Riemannian metric on any 3-manifold with the property that there are genus zero embedded minimal surfaces of arbitrarily high Morse index.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel Hass , Paul Norbury , J. Hyam Rubinstein

In this paper, we study Vanishing Mean Oscillation vector fields on a compact manifold with boundary. Inspired by the work of Brezis and Niremberg, we construct a topological invariant - the index - for such fields, and establish the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-08 Giacomo Canevari , Antonio Segatti , Marco Veneroni

Given two Jordan curves in a Riemannian manifold, a minimal surface of annulus type bounded by these curves is described as the harmonic extension of a critical point of some functional (the Dirichlet integral) in a certain space of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hwajeong Kim

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 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

Given a compact 3-manifold N without boundary, we prove that for a bumpy metric of positive scalar curvature the space of minimal surfaces having a uniform upper bound on the Morse index is always finite unless the manifold itself contains…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Alessandro Carlotto

We first consider a uniqueness problem for embedded free boundary minimal annuli in the three-dimensional Euclidean unit half-ball. Then, we obtain symmetry properties for compact embedded free boundary minimal surfaces in the unit ball.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-13 Dong-Hwi Seo

Given a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary and a finite group of orientation-preserving isometries of this manifold, we prove that the equivariant index of a free boundary minimal surface obtained via an equivariant min-max…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Giada Franz