A note on the index of closed minimal hypersurfaces of flat tori
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Abstract:
Generalizing earlier work by Ros in ambient dimension three, we prove an affine lower bound for the Morse index of closed minimal hypersurfaces inside a flat torus in terms of their first Betti number (with purely dimensional coefficients).References
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Additional Information
- Lucas Ambrozio
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Email: l.ambrozio@imperial.ac.uk
- Alessandro Carlotto
- Affiliation: ETH - Department of Mathematics, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich,Switzerland
- MR Author ID: 925162
- Email: alessandro.carlotto@math.ethz.ch
- Ben Sharp
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
- MR Author ID: 1008414
- Email: b.sharp@warwick.ac.uk
- Received by editor(s): January 24, 2017
- Published electronically: August 1, 2017
- Communicated by: Lei Ni
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), 335-344
- MSC (2010): Primary 53A10; Secondary 53C42, 49Q05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/proc/13833
- MathSciNet review: 3723144