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Embedded minimal $S^1$-bundles in $\mathbb{S}^4$

Differential Geometry 2026-06-30 v1

Abstract

We construct infinitely many embedded minimal hypersurfaces of pairwise distinct irreducible topological types in the unit 44-sphere S4\mathbb{S}^4, which provides a new answer to a problem of Hsiang. These examples are topologically principal S1S^1-bundles and Seifert fibered manifolds over closed orientable surfaces. In particular, for any closed orientable surface Σ2k1\Sigma_{2k-1} of odd genus n=2k1n=2k-1, we show that S1×Σ2k1S^1\times \Sigma_{2k-1} admits a minimal embedding into S4\mathbb{S}^4. The construction is based on the equivariant min-max theory and the suspended (weighted) Hopf action on S4\mathbb{S}^4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.31091,
  title  = {Embedded minimal $S^1$-bundles in $\mathbb{S}^4$},
  author = {Tongrui Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.31091},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

32 pages, 4 figures. Comments are welcome!

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