Every closed Riemannian 4- or 5-manifold admits a branched immersed closed minimal surface, obtained from a min-max sequence of sweepouts generated by multisections and refined by harmonic replacement.
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Existence of classical minimal surfaces in $4$ and $5$-manifolds
Every closed Riemannian 4- or 5-manifold admits a branched immersed closed minimal surface, obtained from a min-max sequence of sweepouts generated by multisections and refined by harmonic replacement.