Width, Ricci curvature, and minimal hypersurfaces

DOI10.4310/JDG/1483655859MaRDI QIDQ509253zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Parker Glynn-Adey, Yevgeny Liokumovich

Publication date 9 February 2017

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3656, http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1483655859

zbMATH Keywords

minimal hypersurfaceRicci curvaturewidth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: Let $(M,g_0)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension $n$, for $3leqnleq7$, and non-negative Ricci curvature. Let $g=ph{i}^2{g}_0$ be a metric in the conformal class of $g_0$. We show that there exists a smooth closed embedded minimal hypersurface in $(M,g)$ of volume bounded by $C{V}^{fracn-1n}$, where $V$ is the total volume of $(M,g)$ and $C$ is a constant that depends only on $n$. When $Ric(M,g_0)geq-(n-1)$ we obtain a similar bound with constant $C$ depending only on $n$ and the volume of $(M,g_0)$. Our second result concerns manifolds $(M,g)$ of positive Ricci curvature. We obtain an effective version of a theorem of F. Coda Marques and A. Neves on the existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces on $(M,g)$. We show that for any such manifold there exists $k$ minimal hypersurfaces of volume at most $C_{n}Vleft(sy{s}_{n-1}(M)ight{)}^{-frac1n-1}{k}^{frac1n-1}$, where $V$ denotes the volume of $(M,g_0)$ and $sy{s}_{n-1}(M)$ is the smallest volume of a non-trivial minimal hypersurface.

Review text

The main result of the paper under review is the following bound on the volume of minimal hypersurfaces for certain conformal classes of Riemannian metrics. Theorem 1.1. Suppose \(M_0\) is a closed Riemannian manifold of dimension \(n\), for \(3\leq n\leq 7\). If \(M\) is in the conformal class of \(M_0\) then \(M\) contains a smooth closed embedded minimal hypersurface \(\Sigma \) with volume bounded above by \(C(M_0)\mathrm{Vol}(M)^{\frac{n-1}{n}}\). When \(\mathrm{Ricci}(M_0)\geq 0\), the constant \(C(M_0)\) is an absolute constant that depends only on \(n\). In general, for \(M_0\) with \(\mathrm{Ricci}(M_0)\geq -(n-1)a^2\) we can take \(C(M_0)=C(n)\max\{1, a\mathrm{Vol}(M_0)^{\frac{1}{n}}\}\). If \(n>7\) the same upper bound holds for the \((n-1)\)-volume of a closed minimal hypersurface with singularities of dimension at most \(n-8\). This result follows from a bound on the width of \(M\).

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