Existence of multiple closed CMC hypersurfaces with small mean curvature (Q6183881)

Constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces are the critical points of the area functional with respect to the variations which preserve the enclosed volume. The hypersurfaces with constant mean curvature zero are called minimal hypersurfaces; they are the critical points of the area functional. There is a well-developed existence theory for closed minimal hypersurfaces in closed Riemannian manifolds, and it is natural to ask, for a given \(c>0\) and a closed Riemannian manifold \((M,g)\), whether there exist multiple closed \(c\)-CMC hypersurfaces in \((M,g)\). In particular, \textit{X. Zhou} and \textit{J. J. Zhu}, [Invent. Math. 218, No. 2, 441--490 (2019; Zbl 1432.53086)] developed a min-max theory for CMC hypersurfaces, and proved that for any \(c>0\), every closed Riemannian manifold \((M^{n+1},g)\), \(3\leq n+1\leq 7\), contains a closed \(c\)-CMC hypersurface. In this paper, the author shows that the min-max theory for CMC hypersurfaces by Zhou-Zhu and Zhou can be extended in higher dimensions using the regularity theory of stable CMC hypersurfaces, developed by Bellettini-Wickramasekera ([\textit{C. Bellettini} and \textit{N. Wickramasekera}, ``Stable prescribed-mean-curvature integral varifolds of codimension 1: regularity and compactness'', Preprint, arXiv:1902.09669 [math.DG] (2019)]) and Bellettini-Chodosh-Wickramasekera ([\textit{C. Bellettini} et al., Adv. Math. 352, 133--157 (2019; Zbl 1419.53056)]). Furthermore, he proves that the number of closed \(c\)-CMC hypersurfaces in a closed Riemannian manifold \((M^{n+1},g)\), \(n+1\geq 3\), tends to infinity as \(c\to 0^{+}\). More quantitatively, there exists a constant \(\gamma_0\), depending on \(g\), such that for all \(c>0\), there exist at least \(\gamma_0c^{-\frac{1}{n+1}}\) many closed \(c\)-CMC hypersurfaces in \((M,g)\).