Existence of incompressible minimal surfaces and the topology of three dimensional manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature

DOI10.2307/1971247zbMath0431.53051OpenAlexW2323520495WikidataQ101086270 ScholiaQ101086270MaRDI QIDQ1138259

Richard M. Schoen, Shing Tung Yau

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1971247

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupminimal surfacesthree dimensional manifoldsnon-negative scalar curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20)

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