Spines of minimal length

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201511_003MaRDI QIDQ4604579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Martelli, Alessandra Pluda, Stefano Riolo, M. Novaga

Publication date 2 March 2018

Published in ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02367

zbMATH Keywords

surfacessystolesspines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In this paper we raise the question whether every closed Riemannian manifold has a spine of minimal area, and we answer it affirmatively in the surface case. On constant curvature surfaces we introduce the spine systole, a continuous real function on moduli space that measures the minimal length of a spine in each surface. We show that the spine systole is a proper function and has its global minima precisely on the extremal surfaces (those containing the biggest possible discs). We also study minimal spines, which are critical points for the length functional. We completely classify minimal spines on flat tori, proving that the number of them is a proper function on moduli space. We also show that the number of minimal spines of uniformly bounded length is finite on hyperbolic surfaces.

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