Plateau-Stein manifolds

Misha Gromov

Open Mathematics (2014)

  • Volume: 12, Issue: 7, page 923-951
  • ISSN: 2391-5455

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We study/construct (proper and non-proper) Morse functions f on complete Riemannian manifolds X such that the hypersurfaces f(x) = t for all −∞ < t < +∞ have positive mean curvatures at all non-critical points x ∈ X of f. We show, for instance, that if X admits no such (not necessarily proper) function, then it contains a (possibly, singular) complete (possibly, compact) minimal hypersurface of finite volume.

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Misha Gromov. "Plateau-Stein manifolds." Open Mathematics 12.7 (2014): 923-951. <http://eudml.org/doc/269309>.

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