The one-two-three conjecture for genus-three minimal surfaces in flat three-tori

Let MM be a compact oriented minimal surface in a flat three-torus, and suppose that MM has genus three. Write indexAindex_A for its Morse index with respect to the area functional. One-two-three conjecture. One has

1indexA3.1\leq index_A\leq 3.

The preceding results establish this bound for the five described families and indicate that genus-three compact oriented minimal surfaces in flat three-tori should have uniformly bounded Morse index. Whether the bound holds for every such surface remains open.

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Norio Ejiri and Toshihiro Shoda, “The Morse index of a triply periodic minimal surface”, arXiv:1801.10388 (2018).

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