On the existence of minimal Heegaard surfaces

arXiv1911.07161MaRDI QIDQ6329317FDOQ6329317

Authors: Daniel Ketover, Yevgeny Liokumovich, Antoine Song 

Publication date: 17 November 2019

Abstract: Let $H$ be a strongly irreducible Heegaard surface in a closed oriented Riemannian $3$-manifold. We prove that $H$ is either isotopic to a minimal surface of index at most one or isotopic to the boundary of a tubular neighborhood about a non-orientable minimal surface with a vertical handle attached. This confirms a long-standing conjecture of J. Pitts and J.H. Rubinstein. In the case of positive scalar curvature, we show for spherical space forms not diffeomorphic to $mathbb{S}^3$ or $mathbb{RP}^3$ that any strongly irreducible Heegaard splitting is isotopic to a minimal surface, and that there is a minimal Heegaard splitting of area less than $4pi$ if $Rgeq6$.

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