Examples of unknotted curves which bound only surfaces of high genus within their convex hulls

DOI10.2307/1970922zbMath0353.53001OpenAlexW2322789948MaRDI QIDQ1236352

William P. Thurston, Frederick J. jun. Almgren

Publication date: 1977

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1970922

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05)

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