Gluing and moduli for noncompact geometric problems

zbMATH Open0976.53065arXivdg-ga/9601008MaRDI QIDQ4400892FDOQ4400892

Authors: Daniel Pollack, Rafe Mazzeo 

Publication date: 8 January 2002

Abstract: In this paper we survey a number of recent results concerning the existence and moduli spaces of solutions of various geometric problems on noncompact manifolds. The three problems which we discuss in detail are: I. Complete properly immersed minimal surfaces in $R{R}^3$ with finite total curvature. II. Complete embedded surfaces of constant mean curvature in $R{R}^3$ with finite topology. III. Complete conformal metrics of constant positive scalar curvature on $M^{n}setminusLambda$, where $M^n$ is a compact Riemannian manifold, $ngeq3$ and $LamsubsetM$ is closed. The existence results we discuss for each of these problems are ones whereby known solutions (sometimes satisfying certain nondegeneracy hypotheses) are glued together to produce new solutions. Although this sort of procedure is quite well-known, there have been some recent advances on which we wish to report here. We also discuss what has been established about the moduli spaces of all solutions to these problems, and report on some work in progress concerning global aspects of these moduli spaces. In the final section we present a new compactness result for the `unmarked moduli spaces' for problem III.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9601008

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zbMATH Keywords

constant mean curvaturemoduli spacescalar curvatureminimal surfacegluingfinite total curvaturefinite topologycomplete conformal metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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