On a critical point theory for minimal surfaces spanning a wire in Rn.

DOI10.1515/CRLL.1984.349.1zbMath0521.49028OpenAlexW3082422610MaRDI QIDQ3670048

Michael Struwe

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/resolveppn/?PPN=GDZPPN002201348

zbMATH Keywords

Morse inequalitiesPalais-Smale conditionunstable minimal surfacesgeneral mountain-pass type existence resultgradient-line deformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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