%0 Journal Article %T Stability and compactness for complete $f$-minimal surfaces %A Xu Cheng %A Tito Mejia %A Detang Zhou %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X Let $(M,\bar{g}, e^{-f}d\mu)$ be a complete metric measure space with Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant. We prove that, in $M$, there is no complete two-sided $L_f$-stable immersed $f$-minimal hypersurface with finite weighted volume. Further, if $M$ is a 3-manifold, we prove a smooth compactness theorem for the space of complete embedded $f$-minimal surfaces in $M$ with the uniform upper bounds of genus and weighted volume, which generalizes the compactness theorem for complete self-shrinkers in $\mathbb{R}^3$ by Colding-Minicozzi. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8076v1