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JOURNAL OF DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY
Volume 118, Issue 3, Pages 487-553Publisher
INT PRESS BOSTON, INC
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1625860624
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- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [CUHK 24305115]
- CUHK Direct Grant [4053118]
- NSF [DMS-1406337]
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This paper completes the program of finding minimal hypersurfaces in general compact manifold with non-empty boundary, proving the existence of a smooth embedded minimal hypersurface with non-empty free boundary in any compact smooth Euclidean domain. Additionally, it shows that for any compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and convex boundary, there exist infinitely many properly embedded minimal hypersurfaces with non-empty free boundary.
In 1960s, Almgren [3, 4] initiated a program to find minimal hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds using min-max method. This program was largely advanced by Pitts [34] and Schoen-Simon [37] in 1980s when the manifold is compact without boundary. In this paper, we finish this program for general compact manifold with non-empty boundary. As a corollary, we establish the existence of a smooth embedded minimal hypersurface with non-empty free boundary in any compact smooth Euclidean domain. An application of our general existence result combined with the work of Marques and Neves [31] shows that for any compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and convex boundary, there exist infinitely many properly embedded minimal hypersurfaces with non-empty free boundary.
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