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On complete stable minimal surfaces in 4-manifolds with positive isotropic curvature
Author:
Martin Man-chun Li
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 140 (2012), 2843-2854
MSC (2010):
Primary 53A10; Secondary 32Q10
Posted:
November 29, 2011
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Abstract: We prove the nonexistence of stable immersed minimal surfaces uniformly conformally equivalent to in any complete orientable four- dimensional Riemannian manifold with uniformly positive isotropic curvature. We also generalize the same nonexistence result to higher dimensions provided that the ambient manifold has uniformly positive complex sectional curvature. The proof consists of two parts: assuming an ``eigenvalue condition'' on the -operator of a holomorphic bundle, we prove (1) a vanishing theorem for these holomorphic bundles on and (2) an existence theorem for holomorphic sections with controlled growth by Hörmander's weighted -method.
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Martin Man-chun Li
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Address at time of publication:
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1984 Mathematics Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada
Email:
martinli@stanford.edu, martinli@math.ubc.ca
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-11113-4
PII:
S 0002-9939(2011)11113-4
Received by editor(s):
November 5, 2010
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
March 4, 2011
Posted:
November 29, 2011
Communicated by:
Jianguo Cao
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