Self-intersections of closed parametrized minimal surfaces in generic Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S10455-021-09771-8MaRDI QIDQ2033067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors John Douglas Moore

Publication date 14 June 2021

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05555

zbMATH Keywords

generic properties of minimal surfacesinfinite-dimensional manifold theoryparametrized minimal surfacesrepresenting homology classes by imbedded minimal surfacestopology of four-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

Abstract: This article shows that for generic choice of Riemannian metric on a smooth manifold $M$ of dimension four, all prime compact parametrized minimal surfaces within $M$ have self-intersections in general position in the following sense: self-intersections are transverse and the two tangent planes at any self-intersection point fail to be complex with respect to any orthogonal complex structure on the ambient manifold $M$. This implies via a result of Sheldon Chang that $H_2(M;mathbbZ)$ is generated by homology classes that are represented by imbedded minimal surfaces.

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