Antoine Song (born 18 July 1992 in Paris) is a French[1] mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry. In 2018, he proved Yau's conjecture. He is a Clay Research Fellow (2019–2024).[2] He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2019 under the supervision of Fernando Codá Marques.[3] He is an assistant professor of mathematics at Caltech.[4] He is a Sloan Fellow.[5][6] In 2023, together with Conghan Dong, he proved a conjecture from 2001 by Huisken and Ilmanen on the mathematics of general relativity, about the curvature in spaces with very little mass.[7]
Antoine Song | |
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Born | July 18, 1992 |
Alma mater | Princeton University |
Known for | Yau's conjecture |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Differential geometry |
Institutions | Caltech |
Doctoral advisor | Fernando Codá Marques |
He delivered the 2021–2022 Peccot Lectures (in 2022, due to the coronavirus pandemic).[8]
Existence of minimal surfaces
editIt is known that any closed surface possesses infinitely many closed geodesics. The first problem in the minimal submanifolds section of Yau's list asks whether any closed three-manifold has infinitely many closed smooth immersed minimal surfaces. At the time it was known from Almgren–Pitts min-max theory the existence of at least one minimal surface. Kei Irie, Fernando Codá Marques, and André Neves solved this problem in the generic case [9] and later Antoine Song claimed it in full generality.[10]
Selected publications
edit- "Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds" (2018), Annals of Mathematics
- Joint with Marques and Neves: "Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics" (2019), Inventiones mathematicae[11]
- Joint with Conghan Dong: "Stability of Euclidean 3-space for the positive mass theorem" (2023)[12]
References
edit- ^ Song's CV
- ^ "Antoine Song | Clay Mathematics Institute". www.claymath.org.
- ^ Antoine Song at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Antoine Song | the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy".
- ^ "Caltech Professors Win 2024 Sloan Fellowships". 20 February 2024.
- ^ "2024 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation".
- ^ Nadis, Steve (30 November 2023), "A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity", Quanta Magazine
- ^ "Cours Peccot 2021-2022 | CNRS Mathématiques". 27 September 2021.
- ^ "Density of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics | Annals of Mathematics".
- ^ Song, Antoine (2018). "Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds". arXiv:1806.08816 [math.DG].
- ^ "Math Duo Maps the Infinite Terrain of Minimal Surfaces". 12 March 2019.
- ^ "A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity". 30 November 2023.
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