The Existence of Least Area Surfaces in 3-Manifolds

DOI10.2307/2001111zbMath0711.53008OpenAlexW4246864467MaRDI QIDQ3496864

Joel Hass, G. P. Scott

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2001111

zbMATH Keywords

homotopy classesleast area surfaces3-dimensional topologyRiemannian 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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