The systole of large genus minimal surfaces in positive Ricci curvature
We use Colding--Minicozzi lamination theory to study the systole of large genus minimal surfaces in an ambient three-manifold of positive Ricci curvature.
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Henrik Matthiesen
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Ground states of semilinear elliptic equations
We study solutions of $Δu - F'(u)=0$, where the potential $F$ can have an arbitrary number of wells at arbitrary heights, including bottomless wells with subcritical decay. In our setting, ground state solutions correspond to unstable solutions of least energy. We show that in convex domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$ and manifolds with $\operatorname{Ric}\geq 0$, ground states are always of mountain-pass type and have Morse index 1. In addition, we prove symmetry of the ground states if the domain is either an Euclidean ball or the entire sphere $S^{N}$. For the Allen-Cahn equation $\varepsilon^2Δu - W'(u)=0$ on $S^{N}$, we prove the ground state is unique up to rotations and corresponds to the equator as a minimal hypersurface. We also study bifurcation at the energy level of the ground state as $\varepsilon\to 0$, showing that the first $N+1$ min-max Allen-Cahn widths of $S^{N}$ are ground states, and we prove a gap theorem for the corresponding $(N+2)$-th min-max solution.
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A remark on the rigidity of the first conformal Steklov eigenvalue
We show rigidity of the first conformal Steklov eigenvalue on annuli and Möbius bands. The proof relies, among others, on uniqueness results due to Fraser--Schoen, a compactness theorem of the second named author, and recent work of the authors on asymptotic control of Steklov eigenvalues in glueing constructions.
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Free boundary minimal surfaces of any topological type in Euclidean balls via shape optimization
For any compact surface $Σ$ with smooth, non-empty boundary, we construct a free boundary minimal immersion into a Euclidean Ball $\mathbb{B}^N$ where $N$ is controlled in terms of the topology of $Σ$. We obtain these as maximizing metrics for the isoperimetric problem for the first non-trivial Steklov eigenvalue. Our main technical result concerns asymptotic control on eigenvalues in a delicate glueing construction which allows us to prove the remaining spectral gap conditions to complete the program by Fraser--Schoen and the second named author to obtain such mazimizing metrics. Our construction draws motivation from earlier work by the first named author with Siffert on the corresponding problem in the closed case.
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Monotonicity results for the first Steklov eigenvalue on compact surfaces
We show several results comparing sharp eigenvalue bounds for the first Steklov eigenvalue on surfaces under change of the topology. Among others, we obtain strict monotonicity in the genus. Combined with results of the second named author \cite{petrides_2} this implies the existence of free boundary minimal immersions from higher genus surfaces into Euclidean balls. Moreover, we can also give a new proof of a result by Fraser and Schoen that shows monotonicity in the number of boundary components.
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Sharp asymptotics of the first eigenvalue on some degenerating surfaces
We study sharp asymptotics of the first eigenvalue on Riemannian surfaces obtained from a fixed Riemannian surface by attaching a collapsing flat handle or cross cap to it. Through a careful choice of parameters this construction can be used to strictly increase the first eigenvalue normalized by area if the initial surface has some symmetries. If these symmetries are not present we show that the first eigenvalue normalized by area strictly decreases for the same range of parameters. These results are the main motivation for the construction in \cite{MS3}, where we show a monotonicity result for the normalized first eigenvalue without any symmetry assumptions.
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Handle attachment and the normalized first eigenvalue
We show that the first eigenvalue of a closed Riemannian surface normalized by the area can be strictly increased by attaching a cylinder or a cross cap. As a consequence we obtain the existence of maximizing metrics for the normalized first eigenvalue on any closed surface of fixed topological type. Since these metrics are induced by (possibly branched) minimal immersions into spheres, we find new examples of immersed minimal surfaces in spheres.
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Extremal metrics for Laplace eigenvalues in perturbed conformal classes on products
In this short note, we prove that conformal classes which are small perturbations of a product conformal class on a product with a standard sphere admit a metric extremal for some Laplace eigenvalue. As part of the arguments we obtain perturbed harmonic maps with constant density.
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Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on non-orientable surfaces
We prove the existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue normalized by area on closed, non-orientable surfaces assuming two spectral gap conditions. These spectral gap conditions are proved by the authors in \cite{MS3}.
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Bottom of spectra and amenability of coverings
For a Riemannian covering $π\colon M_1\to M_0$, the bottoms of the spectra of $M_0$ and $M_1$ coincide if the covering is amenable. The converse implication does not always hold. Assuming completeness and a lower bound on the Ricci curvature, we obtain a converse under a natural condition on the spectrum of $M_0$.
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On the analytic systole of Riemannian surfaces of finite type
In our previous work we introduced, for a Riemannian surface $S$, the quantity $ Λ(S):=\inf_Fλ_0(F)$, where $λ_0(F)$ denotes the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of $F$ and the infimum is taken over all compact subsurfaces $F$ of $S$ with smooth boundary and abelian fundamental group. A result of Brooks implies $Λ(S)\geλ_0(\tilde{S})$, the bottom of the spectrum of the universal cover $\tilde{S}$. In this paper, we discuss the strictness of the inequality. Moreover, in the case of curvature bounds, we relate $Λ(S)$ with the systole, improving a result by the last named author.
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Small eigenvalues of surfaces - old and new
We discuss our recent work on small eigenvalues of surfaces. As an introduction, we present and extend some of the by now classical work of Buser and Randol and explain novel ideas from articles of Sévennec, Otal, and Otal-Rosas which are of importance in our line of thought.
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On the bottom of spectra under coverings
For a Riemannian covering $M_1\to M_0$ of complete Riemannian manifolds with boundary (possibly empty) and respective fundamental groups $Γ_1\subseteqΓ_0$, we show that the bottoms of the spectra of $M_0$ and $M_1$ coincide if the right action of $Γ_0$ on $Γ_1\backslashΓ_0$ is amenable.
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Extremal metrics for Laplace eigenvalues in perturbed conformal classes
We prove that in many cases the existence of an extremal metric for some Laplace eigenvalue in a conformal class allows to find extremal metrics in conformal classes close by. As a consequence and as part of the arguments we obtain perturbed harmonic maps with constant density.
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A regularity result for conformal metrics with large first eigenvalue and integral scalar curvature bounds
We prove a regularity result for unit volume conformal metrics with integral scalar curvature bounds for $p>n/2$ and first eigenvalue of $Δ$ bounded from below by a constant $B > Λ_1(S^n,[g_{st.}]).$
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Small eigenvalues of surfaces of finite type
Extending our previous work on eigenvalues of closed surfaces and work of Otal and Rosas, we show that a complete Riemannian surface S of finite type and negative Euler characteristic has at most negative of the Euler characteristics many small eigenvalues.
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Small eigenvalues of surfaces
We show that the Laplacian of a Riemannian metric on a closed surface S with Euler characteristic χ(S) < 0 has at most -χ(S) small eigenvalues.
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