I will discuss an ongoing joint work with Luigi Appolloni and Andrea Malchiodi concerning the above objects. Minimal surfaces are critical points of the area functional, which is analytic in this case, so we should expect critical points (minimal surfaces) to be either isolated or to belong to smooth nearby minimal foliations. On the other hand, the flat plane of multiplicity two in $\mathbb{R}^3$ can be (in compact regions) approximated by a blown-down catenoid, which will converge back to the plane with multiplicity two in the limit. Hence a plane of multiplicity two cannot be thought of as being isolated, or belonging solely to a smooth family, because there are “nearby” minimal surfaces of distinct topology weakly converging to it. We will nevertheless prove that, when the ambient manifold is closed and analytic, this type of local degeneration is impossible amongst closed and embedded minimal surfaces of bounded topology: such surfaces, even with multiplicity are either isolated or belong to smooth families of nearby minimal surfaces.  

TBA; this talk is hosted at RAL. 

We consider a class of Lagrangian sections L contained in certain Calabi-Yau Lagrangian fibrations (mirrors of toric weak Fano manifolds). We prove that a form of the Thomas-Yau conjecture holds in this case: L is isomorphic to a special Lagrangian section in this class if and only if a stability condition holds, in the sense of a slope inequality on objects in a set of exact triangles in the Fukaya-Seidel category. This agrees with general proposals by Li. On
surfaces and threefolds, under more restrictive assumptions, this result can be used to show a precise relation with Bridgeland stability, as predicted by Joyce. Based on arXiv:2505.07228 and arXiv:2508.17709.