A mountain pass theorem for minimal hypersurfaces with fixed boundary.

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Rafael Montezuma Pinheiro Cabral, Princeton University
Fine Hall 314

In this talk, we will be concerned with the existence of a third embedded minimal hypersurface spanning a closed submanifold B contained in the boundary of a compact Riemannian manifold with convex boundary, when it is known a priori the existence of two strictly stable minimal hypersurfaces that bound B. In order to do so, we develop min-max methods similar to those of the recent work of De Lellis and Ramic, adapted to the discrete setting of Almgren and Pitts.