The Half-Volume Spectrum of a Manifold

Publication date: 15 February 2023

Abstract: We define the half-volume spectrum

{i l d e o m e g a_{p}}_{p i n m a t h b b N}

of a closed manifold

(M^{n + 1}, g)

. This is analogous to the usual volume spectrum of

M

, except that we restrict to

p

-sweepouts whose slices each enclose half the volume of

M

. We prove that the Weyl law continues to hold for the half-volume spectrum. We define an analogous half-volume spectrum

i l d e c (p)

in the phase transition setting. Moreover, for

3 l e n + 1 l e 7

, we use the Allen-Cahn min-max theory to show that each

i l d e c (p)

is achieved by a constant mean curvature surface enclosing half the volume of

M

plus a (possibly empty) collection of minimal surfaces with even multiplicities.

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