A viscosity method in the min-max theory of minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/S10240-017-0094-ZzbMATH Open1387.53084arXiv1508.07141OpenAlexW2963023321MaRDI QIDQ679653FDOQ679653

Tristan Rivière

Publication date: 19 January 2018

Published in: Publications Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present the min-max construction of critical points of the area using penalization arguments. Precisely, for any immersion of a closed surface $Sigma$ into a given closed manifold, we add to the area Lagrangian a term equal to the $L^q$ norm of the second fundamental form of the immersion times a "viscosity" parameter. This relaxation of the area functional satisfies the Palais-Smale condition for $q>2$. This permits to construct critical points of the relaxed Lagrangian using classical min-max arguments such as the mountain pass lemma. The goal of this work is to describe the passage to the limit when the "viscosity" parameter tends to zero. Under some natural entropy condition, we establish a varifold convergence of these critical points towards a parametrized integer stationary varifold realizing the min-max value. It is proved in a recent work in collaboration with A.Pigati that parametrized integer stationary varifold are given by smooth maps exclusively. As a consequence we conclude that every surface area minmax is realized by a smooth possibly branched minimal immersion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07141

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zbMATH Keywords

energycritical pointsPalais-Smale conditionminimal surfacemin-max theorystationary integer varifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions for minimax problems (49K35) Viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations in optimal control and differential games (49L25) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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