On a conjecture of Meeks, Pérez and Ros

DOI10.4310/JDG/1701804152MaRDI QIDQ6183886zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vanderson Lima

Publication date 4 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.03883, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/journal-of-differential-geometry/volume-125/issue-3/On-a-conjecture-of-Meeks-P%c3%a9rez-and-Ros/10.4310/jdg/1701804152.full

zbMATH Keywords

stable minimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: Meeks, P'erez and Ros conjectured that a closed Riemannian $3$-manifold which does not admit any closed embedded minimal surface whose two-sided covering is stable, must be diffeomorphic to a quotient of the $3$-sphere. We give an counterexample to this conjecture. Also, we show that if we consider immersed surfaces instead of embedded ones, then the corresponding statement is true.

Review text

It was conjectured by \textit{W. H. Meeks III} et al., [Adv. Lect. Math. (ALM) 7, 301--380 (2008; Zbl 1154.53009)] that if \((M, g)\) is a closed Riemannian 3-manifold which does not admit any closed, embedded, minimal surface whose two-sided covering is stable, then \(M\) is finitely covered by the \(3\)-sphere. In this paper, the author gives a counterexample to this conjecture. However, if one excludes immersed rather than just embedded surfaces, then the corresponding conjecture turns out to be true.

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