Yau's conjecture

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In differential geometry, Yau's conjecture is a mathematical conjecture which states that any closed Riemannian 3-manifold has infinitely many smooth closed immersed minimal surfaces. It is named after Shing-Tung Yau, who posed it as the 88th entry in his 1982 list of open problems in differential geometry. [1]

The conjecture was resolved by Kei Irie, Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves in the generic case, [2] and by Antoine Song in full generality. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Yau, Shing Tung (1982). "Problem section". In Yau, Shing-Tung (ed.). Seminar on Differential Geometry. Annals of Mathematics Studies. Vol. 102. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 669–706. doi:10.1515/9781400881918-035. ISBN   978-1-4008-8191-8. MR   0645762. Zbl   0479.53001.
  2. ↑ Irie, Kei; Marques, Fernando C.; Neves, André (2018). "Density of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics". Annals of Mathematics . 187 (3): 963–972. arXiv: 1710.10752 . doi: 10.4007/annals.2018.187.3.8 .
  3. ↑ Song, Antoine (2023). "Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds". Annals of Mathematics . 197 (3): 859–895. arXiv: 1806.08816 . doi: 10.4007/annals.2023.197.3.1 .
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