## Acta Mathematica

### Embedded minimal tori in S3 and the Lawson conjecture

Simon Brendle

#### Abstract

We show that any embedded minimal torus in S3 is congruent to the Clifford torus. This answers a question posed by H. B. Lawson, Jr., in 1970.

#### Note

The author was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants DMS-0905628 and DMS-1201924.

#### Article information

Source
Acta Math., Volume 211, Number 2 (2013), 177-190.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 31 January 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.acta/1485892735

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1007/s11511-013-0101-2

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3143888

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1305.53061

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#### Citation

Brendle, Simon. Embedded minimal tori in S 3 and the Lawson conjecture. Acta Math. 211 (2013), no. 2, 177--190. doi:10.1007/s11511-013-0101-2. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.acta/1485892735

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