• mathematics, the AlmgrenPitts min-max theory (named after Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. and his student Jon T. Pitts) is an analogue of Morse theory for hypersurfaces...
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    other important conjectures, Marques and Neves greatly extended AlmgrenPitts min-max theory to prove theorems about minimal surfaces. Codá Marques was born...
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  • the AlmgrenPitts min-max theory as it establishes existence of topologically non-trivial families of cycles, which were used by Frederick J. Almgren Jr...
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  • Almgren regularity theorem AlmgrenPitts min-max theory Almgren Isomorphism Theorem O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frederick J. Almgren Jr...
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  • symplectic field theory, but this work was never published due to substantial analytic difficulties. AlmgrenPitts min-max theory Digital Morse theory – Digital...
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  • mathematical theories. AlmgrenPitts min-max theory Approximation theory Arakelov theory Asymptotic theory Automata theory Bass–Serre theory Bifurcation theory Braid...
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    smooth immersed minimal surfaces. At the time it was known from AlmgrenPitts min-max theory the existence of at least one minimal surface. Kei Irie, Fernando...
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  • received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981. The AlmgrenPitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him. Pitts died on 30 May 2024. Existence and regularity...
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    International Press. ISBN 1-57146-002-0. MR 1474501. Zbl 0886.53004. AlmgrenPitts min-max theory Harmonic map Sphere theorem "Fellows Database | Alfred P. Sloan...
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    Neves proved the conjecture in the embedded case, using the AlmgrenPitts min-max theory of minimal surfaces. Prior to the proof of Marques and Neves...
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    Marques and Neves made novel use of the AlmgrenPitts min-max theory of the area functional from geometric measure theory; Li and Yau's approach depended on...
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    machinery of geometric measure theory. The Schoen−Simon estimates are fundamental for the general AlmgrenPitts min-max theory, and consequently for its various...
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    Möbius energy (category Knot theory)
    2012 by Ian Agol, Fernando C. Marques and André Neves, by using AlmgrenPitts min-max theory. Let γ i : S 1 → R 3 {\displaystyle \gamma _{i}:S^{1}\rightarrow...
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