On minimal immersions in Finsler space (Q895467)

Continuing their investigations to find minimal immersions of \(\mathcal M=\mathbb{R}^m\) into a (Finsler-) Minkowski space of dimension \(m+1\) (the Plateau problem for Minkowski spaces) the authors prove that: {\parindent=0.4 cm \begin{itemize}\item[1.] For \(m=2,3\) the minimal graphs \(X(\mathcal M)\) are affine planes. For \(m>3\) this requires certain additional conditions (Bernstein type theorems); \item[2.] If for such immersions the boundaries of two \(X(\mathcal M)\) coincide, then the two entire hypersurfaces coincide (Uniqueness theorem); \item[3.] A small such Minkowski graph can be extended to a large one. \end{itemize}} After this the case is investigated, where \(\mathcal M\) is an oriented \(m\)-dimensional manifold with boundary. It is proved that \(X(\mathcal M)\) is contained in the convex hull of its boundary. Finally, several inequalities concerning the Finsler area of \(X(\mathcal M)\) and an existence theorem are proven. The results are in relation with some works of M. Souza, Z. Shen, K. Tenenblat and N. Cui.