Min-max theory and the energy of links
Authors:
Ian Agol, Fernando C. Marques and André Neves
Journal:
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 29 (2016), 561-578
MSC (2010):
Primary 57M25; Secondary 53C42, 49Q20
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/835
Published electronically:
June 4, 2015
MathSciNet review:
3454383
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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.
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Ian Agol
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, 970 Evans Hall #3840, Berkeley, California 94720-3840
Email:
ianagol@math.berkeley.edu
Fernando C. Marques
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Fine Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Email:
coda@impa.br
André Neves
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2RH, United Kingdom
Email:
a.neves@imperial.ac.uk
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/835
Received by editor(s):
September 19, 2012
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
April 10, 2015
Published electronically:
June 4, 2015
Additional Notes:
The first author was supported by DMS-0806027 and DMS-1105738.
The second author was partly supported by CNPq-Brazil, FAPERJ, and Math-Amsud.
The third author was partly supported by Marie Curie IRG Grant, ERC Start Grant, and Leverhulme Award.
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