Embeddedness of min-max CMC hypersurfaces in manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

DOI10.1007/S00030-023-00910-7arXiv2212.09605OpenAlexW4391786631MaRDI QIDQ6153166FDOQ6153166

Authors: Costante Bellettini, Myles Workman 

Publication date: 16 March 2024

Published in: NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $3$ or higher, with positive Ricci curvature, the Allen--Cahn min-max scheme (implemented by the first author and N. Wickramasekera in 2020), with prescribing function taken to be a non-zero constant $lambda$, produces an embedded hypersurface of constant mean curvature $lambda$ ($lambda$-CMC). More precisely, we prove that the interface arising from said min-max contains no even-multiplicity minimal hypersurface and no quasi-embedded points (both of these occurrences are in principle possible in the conclusions of the aforementioned work by the first author and N. Wickramasekera). The immediate geometric corollary is the existence (in ambient manifolds as above) of embedded, closed $lambda$-CMC hypersurfaces (with Morse index $1$) for any prescribed non-zero constant $lambda$, with the expected singular set when the ambient dimension is $8$ or higher.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09605

zbMATH Keywords

positive Ricci curvatureconstant mean curvature hypersurfaceAllen-Cahn min-max scheme

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Semilinear elliptic equations (35J61) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20) 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) Quasilinear elliptic equations with mean curvature operator (35J93)

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