Abstract
Freedman, He, and Wang conjectured in 1994 that the Möbius energy should be minimized, among the class of all nontrivial links in Euclidean space, by the stereographic projection of the standard Hopf link. We prove this conjecture using the min-max theory of minimal surfaces.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 561-578 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Mathematical Society |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics
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