Existence and uniqueness of \(F\)-minimal surfaces (Q1403398)

The author considers the following parametric functional, which is defined on the set of \(C^\infty\) immersions \(X:\Omega\to\mathbb{R}^3\): \[ \mathcal F(X)=\int_{\Omega} F(X_{u}\wedge X_{v}) du dv, \] where \(F\) is an elliptic integrand that satisfies the homogeneity condition \(F(ty)=t F(y)\) for all \(t>0\). The main result of the paper is the extension, to the class of \(F\)-minimal surfaces, of Radó's theorem on uniqueness and nonparametric representation of minimal surfaces spanning a curve \(\Gamma\) with one-to-one parallel projection onto the boundary of a plane convex domain.