Minimal spheres of arbitrarily high Morse index

DOI10.4310/CAG.2003.V11.N3.A2MaRDI QIDQ2494590zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joel R. Hass, Paul Norbury, J. Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date 29 June 2006

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206286

zbMATH Keywords

embedded minimal spheresMorse indexnon-negative Ricci curvatureRiemannian metricthree-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We construct a smooth Riemannian metric on any 3-manifold with the property that there are genus zero embedded minimal surfaces of arbitrarily high Morse index.

Review text

This is a beautiful article related to a question of Pitts and Rubinstein, if embedded minimal surfaces of fixed genus in a three-manifold have bounded Morse index [see \textit{J. T. Pitts} and \textit{J. H. Rubinstein}, Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and topology of \(3\)-manifolds, Geometry and partial differential equations, 2nd Miniconf., Canberra/Aust. 1986, Proc. Cent. Math. Anal. Aust. Natl. Univ. 12, 137--170 (1987; Zbl 0639.49030)]. The authors construct metrics for which there are embedded minimal spheres of arbitrarily large Morse index. The main result is the following. Theorem 1. On any three-manifold there exists a metric for which there are embedded minimal spheres of arbitrarily large Morse index. On the three-sphere it can be chosen to have non-negative Ricci curvature. The authors use techniques from \textit{W. Hsiang} and \textit{H. B. Lawson} [J. Differ. Geom. 5, 1--38 (1971; Zbl 0219.53045)]. They observe that their result is complementary to the result given in \textit{T. Colding} and \textit{N. Hingston}, [Duke Math. J. 119, No. 2, 345--365 (2003; Zbl 1059.53037)].

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