Min-max minimal disks with free boundary in Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.471zbMATH Open1442.35560arXiv1806.04664OpenAlexW3102402924WikidataQ115231028 ScholiaQ115231028MaRDI QIDQ2177709FDOQ2177709

Authors: Longzhi Lin, Ao Sun, Xin Zhou 

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we establish a min-max theory for constructing minimal disks with free boundary in any closed Riemannian manifold. The main result is an effective version of the partial Morse theory for minimal disks with free boundary established by Fraser. Our theory also includes as a special case the min-max theory for Plateau problem of minimal disks, which can be used to generalize the famous work by Morse-Thompkins and Shiffman on minimal surfaces in $mathbf{R}^n$ to the Riemannian setting. More precisely, we generalize the min-max construction of minimal surfaces using harmonic replacement introduced by Colding and Minicozzi to the free boundary setting. As a key ingredient to this construction, we show an energy convexity for weakly harmonic maps with mixed Dirichlet and free boundaries from the half unit $2$-disk in $mathbf{R}^2$ into any closed Riemannian manifold, which in particular yields the uniqueness of such weakly harmonic maps. This is a free boundary analogue of the energy convexity and uniqueness for weakly harmonic maps with Dirichlet boundary on the unit $2$-disk proved by Colding and Minicozzi.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04664

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zbMATH Keywords

free boundaryminimal surfacemin-max

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Differential geometric aspects of harmonic maps (53C43) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35)

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