https://neckpinch.com/authors/yangyang-li/New arXiv papers by Yangyang Li, from Neckpinch Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:37:45 GMT https://neckpinch.com/papers/2409.09315/arxiv:2409.09315Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTAdrian Chun-Pong Chu, Yangyang Li — In 1989, B. White conjectured that every Riemannian 3-sphere has at least 5 embedded minimal tori. We confirm this conjecture for 3-spheres of positive Ricci curvature. While our proof uses min-max theory, the underlying heuristics are largely inspired by mean curvature flow.Mean curvature flowMinimal & CMC surfaces