Min-max theory for networks of constant geodesic curvature

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2019.106941MaRDI QIDQ2288084zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xin Zhou, Jonathan J. H. Zhu

Publication date 17 January 2020

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04070

zbMATH Keywords

Arnold-Novikov conjectureconstant geodesic curvaturemin-max theorynetworksprescribed curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Local submanifolds (53B25) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Minimax problems in mathematical programming (90C47)

Abstract: We prove that on a closed surface, for any $c>0$, our min-max theory for prescribing mean curvature produces a solution given by a curve of constant geodesic curvature $c$ which is almost embedded, except for finitely many points, at which the solution is a stationary junction with integer density. Moreover, each smooth segment has multiplicity one. The key is a classification of blowups which is new even for $c=0$.

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