Min-max free boundary minimal surface with genus at least one

Abstract

In this paper, we build up a min-max theory for minimal surfaces using sweepouts of surfaces of genus $g\ge 1$ and $m\ge 1$ ideal boundary components. We show that the width for the area functional can be achieved by a bubble tree limit consisting of branched genus $g$ free boundary minimal surfaces with nodes, and possibly finitely many branched minimal spheres and free boundary minimal disks.

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