Abstract
For almost all Riemannian metrics (in the C∞ Baire sense) on a closed manifold Mn+1, 3 ≤ (n + 1) ≤ 7, we prove that the union of all closed, smooth, embedded minimal hypersurfaces is dense. This implies there are infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces, thus proving a conjecture of Yau (1982) for generic metrics.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 963-972 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Annals of Mathematics |
| Volume | 187 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1 2018 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Keywords
- Generic metrics
- Minimal surfaces
- Weyl law