The fundamental group of manifolds of positive isotropic curvature and surface groups

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-06-13325-2zbMath1110.53027arXivmath/0506609MaRDI QIDQ2496931

Ailana M. Fraser, Jon G. Wolfson

Publication date: 25 July 2006

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506609

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupstable minimal surfacesurface grouppositive isotropic curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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