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Seminar

Morse theory for the area functional (FARS)

Speaker
Otis Chodosh (Stanford)
Date
Fri, Nov 3 2023, 4:00pm
Location
384H

Abstract: The "area" functional takes a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold and returns its area. A natural idea is to try to use Morse theory to find critical points of the area functional (of considerable interest to geometers, these are called minimal submanifolds). I will describe what we do and don't know about this.