Existence of minimal surfaces of arbitrarily large Morse index

We show that in a closed 3-manifold with a generic metric of positive Ricci curvature, there are minimal surfaces of arbitrary large Morse index, which partially confirms a conjecture by Marques and Neves. We prove this by analyzing the lamination structure of the limit of minimal surfaces with boun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Haozhao, Zhou, Xin
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107182
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-4504