The asymptotic principle for area-minimizing flat chains modulo n

Consider the direct-limit coefficient group Q/Z\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z} obtained from the groups Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} under the multiplication maps, equipped with the norm induced by the absolute value on the unique representatives in [12,12)[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}). Asymptotic principle for area-minimizing flat chains modulo n. R/Z\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}-area-minimizing flat chains represent the asymptotic behavior of Z/nZ\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}-area-minimizing flat chains as nn\to\infty, just as R\mathbb{R}-area-minimizing flat chains represent the asymptotic behavior of Z\mathbb{Z}-area-minimizing flat chains. This conjecture proposes the limiting variational interpretation of the renormalized finite-coefficient problems as the modulus tends to infinity.

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Zhenhua Liu, “The Hasse Principle for Geometric Variational Problems: An Illustration via Area-minimizing Submanifolds”, arXiv:2508.21045 (2026).

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