Jon T. Pitts

Jon T. Pitts (born 1948) is an American mathematician working on geometric analysis and variational calculus. He is a professor at Texas A&M University.

Pitts obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the supervision of Frederick Almgren, Jr., with the thesis Every Compact Three-Dimensional Manifold Contains Two-Dimensional Minimal Submanifolds.[1]

He received a Sloan Fellowship in 1981.[2]

The Almgren–Pitts min-max theory is named after his teacher and him.[3]

Selected publications
  • "Existence and regularity of minimal surfaces on Riemannian manifolds"
  • "Applications of minimax to minimal surfaces and the topology of 3-manifolds"
  • "Existence of minimal surfaces of bounded topological type in three-manifolds"

References
  1. Jon T. Pitts at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Past Fellows". Sloan.org. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
  3. Yashar Memarian (2013). "A Note on the Geometry of Positively-Curved Riemannian Manifolds". arXiv:1312.0792 [math.MG].


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