Yevgeny Liokumovich — Neckpinchhttps://neckpinch.com/authors/yevgeny-liokumovich/New arXiv papers by Yevgeny Liokumovich, from Neckpinch Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:41:12 GMT The Smale conjecture and min-max theoryhttps://neckpinch.com/papers/2310.05756/arxiv:2310.05756Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTDaniel Ketover, Yevgeny Liokumovich — We give a new proof of the Smale conjecture for ℝP}³ and all lens spaces using minimal surfaces and min-max theory. For ℝP}³, the conjecture was first proved in 2019 by Bamler-Kleiner using Ricci flow.Ricci flowSmale conjecture & diffeomorphismsMinimal & CMC surfaces