Min-max theory for networks of constant geodesic curvature

2018/11/09 by Zhou, Xin, Zhu, Jonathan J. · 1 citation
#49J35 #53A10 #53C42 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1811.04070

Abstract

We prove that on a closed surface, for any c>0, our min-max theory for prescribing mean curvature produces a solution given by a curve of constant geodesic curvature c which is almost embedded, except for finitely many points, at which the solution is a stationary junction with integer density. Moreover, each smooth segment has multiplicity one. The key is a classification of blowups which is new even for c=0.

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