Existence of constant mean curvature 2‐Spheres in Riemannian 3‐spheres

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DOI10.1002/CPA.22114zbMATH Open1530.53014arXiv2012.13379OpenAlexW4382394148MaRDI QIDQ6074571FDOQ6074571

Xin Zhou, Da Rong Cheng

Publication date: 12 October 2023

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the existence of branched immersed constant mean curvature 2-spheres in an arbitrary Riemannian 3-sphere for almost every prescribed mean curvature, and moreover for all prescribed mean curvatures when the 3-sphere is positively curved. To achieve this, we develop a min-max scheme for a weighted Dirichlet energy functional. There are three main ingredients in our approach: a bi-harmonic approximation procedure to obtain compactness of the new functional, a derivative estimate of the min-max values to gain energy upper bounds for min-max sequences for almost every choice of mean curvature, and a Morse index estimate to obtain another uniform energy bound required to reach the remaining constant mean curvatures in the presence of positive curvature.


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