On the Multiplicity One Conjecture in min-max theory

Abstract

We prove that in a closed manifold of dimension between 3 and 7 with a bumpy metric, the min-max minimal hypersurfaces associated with the volume spectrum introduced by Gromov, Guth, Marques-Neves, are two-sided and have multiplicity one. This confirms a conjecture by Marques-Neves.

We prove that in a bumpy metric each volume spectrum is realized by the min-max value of certain relative homotopy class of sweepouts of boundaries of Caccioppoli sets. The main result follows by approximating such min-max value using the min-max theory for hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature established by the author with Zhu.

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Authors

Xin Zhou

University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Current address:

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY