Comparing the Morse index and the first Betti number of minimal hypersurfaces

By L. Ambrozio, Alessandro Carlotto, B. Sharp. 2016

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By extending and generalising previous work by Ros and Savo, we describe a method to show that the Morse index of every closed minimal hypersurface on certain positively curved ambient manifolds is bounded from below by a linear function of its first Betti number. The technique is flexible enough to prove that such a relation between the index and the topology of minimal hypersurfaces holds, for example, on all compact rank one symmetric spaces, on products of the circle with spheres of arbitrary dimension and on suitably pinched submanifolds of the Euclidean spaces. These results confirm a general conjecture due to Schoen and Marques-Neves for a wide class of ambient spaces.

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The Allen–Cahn equation on closed manifolds (2016, background): “Conversely, there also exist examples of sequences of surfaces for which the Morse Index is unbounded while the area remains bounded (see [5,12]).”