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Minimal Surface Seminar

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 4:30pm

Jonathan Zhu

Harvard University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We describe the construction of closed constant mean curvature (CMC) hypersurfaces using min-max methods. In particular, our theory allows us to show the existence of closed CMC hypersurfaces of any prescribed mean curvature in any closed Riemannian manifold. This work is joint with Xin Zhou.