Compactness of the space of incompressible stable minimal surfaces without boundary (Q806075)

In the present paper, using the convergence in geometric measure theory, the author shows the compactness of the space of incompressible stable minimal surfaces of a fixed topological type. Let M be a 2-dimensional compact smooth connected surface without boundary and N be a 3- dimensional smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary (or with convex boundary). For \(f\in C^{\infty}(M,N)\), f is said to be incompressible iff (i) \(f_{\#}: \pi_ 1(M)\to \pi_ 1(N)\) is injective in case \(g>0\), or (ii) f is homotopically non-trivial in case \(g=0\), where g is the genus of M. Set \({\mathcal F}=\{f\in C^{\infty}(M,N)\), incompressible\(\}\) /\(\sim\), where \(f_ 1\sim f_ 2\) iff there exists a diffeomorphism of M such that \(f_ 1=f_ 2g\). Let [f] be the equivalence class containing f and area[f] be the area of [f]. The main result is the following; For any constant \(C>0\), the space of incompressible stable minimal maps of the area \(\leq\) C \(\{\) [f]\(\in {\mathcal F}\); \(stable\) minimal in \({\mathcal F}\), \(area[f]\leq C\}\) is compact.