Curvy slicing proves that triple junctions locally minimize area

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214459219zbMath0870.53006OpenAlexW1563794696WikidataQ115176482 ScholiaQ115176482MaRDI QIDQ679312

Frank Morgan, Gary R. Lawlor

Publication date: 30 July 1997

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214459219

zbMATH Keywords

slicingtriple junctionsarea minimizing surfaces

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) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25)

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