TitleGenus bounds for minimal surfaces arising from min-max constructions.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsDe Lellis C., Pellandini F.
JournalJournal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik
Volume2010
Pagination47–99
Date PublishedMay
PublisherGrelle
Type of Articlegeometric measure theory
ISSN0075-4102
Abstract

In this paper we prove genus bounds for closed embedded minimal surfaces in a closed 3-dimensional manifold constructed via min-max arguments. A stronger estimate was announced by Pitts and Rubinstein but to our knowledge its proof has never been published. Our proof follows ideas of Simon and uses an extension of a famous result of Meeks, Simon and Yau on the convergence of minimizing sequences of isotopic surfaces. This result is proved in the second part of the paper.

Notes

J. Reine Angew. Math. 644 (2010), 47–99.

URLhttps://www.degruyter.com/abstract/j/crll.2010.2010.issue-644/crelle.2010.052/crelle.2010.052.xml
DOI10.1515/crelle.2010.052
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