Mathematical Research Letters

Volume 29 (2022)

Number 3

Global uniqueness of the minimal sphere in the Atiyah–Hitchin manifold

Pages: 871 – 886

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2022.v29.n3.a10

Authors

Chung-Jun Tsai (Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Mu-Tao Wang (Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.)

Abstract

In this note, we prove uniqueness properties of the minimal sphere in the Atiyah–Hitchin manifold.

The authors’ work was supported in part by Taiwan MOST grants MOST 108-2636-M-002-009 (C.-J. Tsai), and NSF grant DMS-1810856 (M.-T. Wang).

Received 5 March 2020

Accepted 20 May 2020

Published 30 November 2022