Morse index bound for minimal two spheres

DOI10.1007/S12220-021-00760-8MaRDI QIDQ2074706zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yuchin Sun

Publication date 10 February 2022

Published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10603

zbMATH Keywords

harmonic mapmin-maxminimal sphereMorse index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: Given a closed manifold of dimension at least three, with non trivial homotopy group pi_3(M) and a generic metric, we prove that there is a finite collection of harmonic spheres with Morse index bound one, with sum of their energies realizes a geometric invariant width.

Review text

The author proves that for a closed manifold of dimension at least three, with non-trivial homotopy group \(\pi_3(M)\) and a generic metric, there is a finite collection of harmonic spheres with Morse index bounded by one, with sum of their energies realizing a geometric invariant width. The collection of finitely many harmonic spheres in the main theorem is constructed by the min-max theory for the energy functional [\textit{T. H. Colding} and \textit{W. P. Minicozzi II}, Geom. Topol. 12, No. 5, 2537--2586 (2008; Zbl 1161.53352)].

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