Symmetry and rigidity of minimal surfaces with Plateau-like singularities (Q2220652)

R. Schoen showed that an immersed minimal surface bounded by two parallel coaxial circles is either a union of two disks or a piece of the smooth catenoid, and he proved a similar rigidity theorem for complete minimal surfaces [\textit{R. Schoen}, J. Differ. Geom. 18, 791--809 (1983; Zbl 0575.53037)]. Bernstein and Maggi prove two results in this vein for \textit{Plateau surfaces} i.e. surfaces which are minimal and immersed except for the two types of singularities which occur experimentally in soap films. Their proof uses geometric measure theory and, similarly to Schoen, Alexandrov's moving planes technique [\textit{A. D. Aleksandrov}, Ann. Mat. Pura Appl. (4) 58, 303--315 (1962; Zbl 0107.15603)] which they manage to generalize to the singular case.