The strong halfspace theorem for minimal surfaces (Q756165): Difference between revisions

This paper contains a proof of the following form of the ``maximum principle at infinity'' for minimal surfaces: A connected, proper, possibly branched, nonplanar minimal surface M in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) is not contained in a halfspace. The natural generalization of the above result for minimal hypersurfaces \(M^ n\subset {\mathbb{R}}^{n+1},\) \(n\geq 3\), fails as shown by the example of the n-catenoid. The authors show that, nevertheless, the convex hull of such a hypersurface is very special. The paper also contains a discussion of other maximum principles at infinity that appeared recently in the literature.