Variations of Renormalized Volume for Minimal Submanifolds of Poincare-Einstein Manifolds

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic expansion and the renormalized volume of minimal submanifolds, $Y^m$ of arbitrary codimension in Poincare-Einstein manifolds, $M^{n+1}$. In particular, we derive formulae for the first and second variations of renormalized volume for $Y^m\subseteq M^{n+1}$ when $m<n+1$. We apply our formulae to the codimension $1$ and the $M={\mathbb{H}}^{n+1}$ case. Furthermore, we prove the existence of an asymptotic description of our minimal submanifold, $Y$, over the boundary cylinder $\partial Y\times {\mathbb{R}}^{+}$, and we further derive an $L^2$-inner-product relationship between $u_2$ and $u_{m+1}$ when $M={\mathbb{H}}^{n+1}$. Our results apply to a slightly more general class of manifolds, which are conformally compact with a metric that has an even expansion up to high order near the boundary.

71 pages. Final Version