Rigidity of min-max minimal spheres in three-manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-1813410zbMath1260.53079arXiv1105.4632MaRDI QIDQ691565

André Neves, Fernando Codá Marques

Publication date: 3 December 2012

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.4632

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surface; 3-sphere; rigidity; width; Ricci flow; index; mini-max method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35J15: Second-order elliptic equations

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

53C24: Rigidity results

35J20: Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations

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