Min-max for phase transitions and the existence of embedded minimal hypersurfaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1513998031zbMath1387.49060arXiv1505.06698OpenAlexW2963087880WikidataQ115165853 ScholiaQ115165853MaRDI QIDQ1700314

Marco A. M. Guaraco

Publication date: 5 March 2018

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06698

zbMATH Keywords

energy functionalMorse indexembedded minimal hypersurfacelocally energy-bounded sequence of stable critical pointstable phase interfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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