Speaker: 

Peter McGrath

Institution: 

Brown University

Time: 

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 4:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

We prove that the volume of a free boundary minimal surface
\Sigma^k \subset B^n, where B^n is a geodesic ball in Hyperbolic
space H^n, is bounded from below by the volume of a geodesic k-ball
with the same radius as B^n. More generally, we prove analogous
results for the case where the ambient space is conformally
Euclidean, spherically symmetric, and the conformal factor is
nondecreasing in the radial variable. These results follow work
of Brendle and Fraser-Schoen, who proved analogous results for
surfaces in the unit ball in R^n. This is joint work with Brian Freidin.