The strong halfspace theorem for minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF01231506zbMath0722.53054WikidataQ56519619 ScholiaQ56519619MaRDI QIDQ756165

David A. Hoffman, William Hamilton III Meeks

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/143807

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesminimal hypersurfacesmaximum principle at infinity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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