Equivariant index bound for min-max free boundary minimal surfaces (Q6134276)

Given a three-dimensional Riemannian manifold with boundary and a finite group of orientation-preserving isometries of this manifold, the author studies the equivariant index of a free boundary minimal surface obtained via an equivariant min-max procedure à la Simon-Smith (see [\textit{F.Smith}, On the existence of embedded minimal 2-spheres in the 3-sphere, endowed with an arbitrary Riemannian metric, Ph.D. Thesis (1982)]) with \(n\) parameters. The main equivariant min-max theorem shown by the author is the combination of regularity, genus bound and equivariant index bound. The regularity part and genus part are mild modifications of the work by \textit{D. Ketover} [``Equivariant min-max theory'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1612.08692}] for closed manifolds, and the \(G\)-equivariant index is shown to be less or equal than \(n\).