We give a shorter proof of the existence of nontrivial closed minimal hypersurfaces in closed smooth $(n + 1)$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds, a theorem proved first by Pitts for 2 ≤ n ≤ 5 and extended later by Schoen and Simon to any n.
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