Marques–Neves multiplicity one conjecture for min-max minimal hypersurfaces

Let Mn+1M^{n+1} be a closed manifold with a generic Riemannian metric, where 3n+173\le n+1\le 7. Consider closed minimal hypersurfaces obtained by min-max methods, and call a component two-sided unstable when it is two-sided and unstable for the area functional. Multiplicity one conjecture. Every two-sided unstable component of such a minimal hypersurface must have multiplicity one. This conjecture would make the Morse-index bound for the support of a min-max minimal hypersurface more informative about the original hypersurface and its unstable part. It is attributed to Marques and Neves; the supplied source does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Alessandro Pigati and Tristan Rivière, “A proof of the multiplicity one conjecture for min-max minimal surfaces in arbitrary codimension”, arXiv:1807.04205 (2019).

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3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2017–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1803.02716, arXiv:1708.06567.

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