A mountain pass theorem for minimal hypersurfaces with fixed boundary (Q2217793)

In this article, the existence of a third embedded minimal hypersurface spanning a closed submanifold \(\gamma\), of mountain pass type, contained in the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold with convex boundary is proved. In Section 2, basic notations are fixed and the min-max setting is explained. In Section 3, technical tools from min-max theory are presented and interpolation and discretization theorems are described. In Section 4, the stationarity condition introduced in [\textit{C. De Lellis} and \textit{J. Ramic}, Ann. Inst. Fourier 68, No. 5, 1909--1986 (2018; Zbl 1408.53079)] is recalled, and the analogue in the tightening map is given. In Section 5, an almost minimizing condition for varifolds relative to approximating integral currents with a fixed boundary is introduced. In Section 6, some tools that are used in the boundary regularity are presented and Theorem 1.3 is proved. In Section 7, the main result, Theorem 1.1, is proved. The author's approach allows one to consider the case, in which the two stable hypersurfaces with boundary \(\gamma\) intersect at interior points.