Spectrum and index of two-sided Allen-Cahn minimal hypersurfaces

DOI10.1080/03605302.2018.1517790zbMATH Open1462.53057arXiv1704.07738OpenAlexW2963090297MaRDI QIDQ4628909FDOQ4628909

Authors: Fritz Hiesmayr 

Publication date: 25 March 2019

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The combined work of Guaraco, Hutchinson, Tonegawa and Wickramasekera has recently produced a new proof of the classical theorem that any closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $n+1geq3$ contains a minimal hypersurface with a singular set of Hausdorff dimension at most $n-7$. This proof avoids the Almgren--Pitts geometric min-max procedure for the area functional that was instrumental in the original proof, and is instead based on a considerably simpler PDE min-max construction of critical points of the Allen--Cahn functional. Here we prove a spectral lower bound for the hypersurfaces arising from this construction. This directly implies an upper bound for the Morse index of the hypersurface in terms of the indices of the critical points, provided it is two-sided. In particular, two-sided hypersurfaces arising from Guaraco's construction have Morse index at most $1$. Finally, we point out by an elementary inductive argument how the regularity of the hypersurface follows from the corresponding result in the stable case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.07738

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zbMATH Keywords

spectrumAllen-Cahn equationMorse indexminimal surfacesecond variationJacobi operatormin-max

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Optimality conditions for minimax problems (49K35) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05)

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