On the number of simply connected minimal surfaces spanning a curve

DOI10.1090/memo/0194zbMath0389.53003OpenAlexW2038633878MaRDI QIDQ4171242

Anthony J. Tromba

Publication date: 1977

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Manifolds of mappings (58D15)

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