The classification of complete stable area-stationary surfaces in the Heisenberg group (Q968817)

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The classification of complete stable area-stationary surfaces in the Heisenberg group
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    The classification of complete stable area-stationary surfaces in the Heisenberg group (English)
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    10 May 2010
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    It is well known that minimal surfaces in Euclidean space are area-stationary. The authors consider the similar problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds and derive that any \(C^2\) complete, orientable, connected, stable area-stationary surface in the sub-Riemannian manifold Heisenberg group \(H^1\) is either a Euclidean plane or congruent to the hyperbolic paraboloid \(t=xy\). These results are interesting.
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    Heisenberg groups
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    singular sets
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    stable area-stationary surfaces
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    second variation
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    area-minimizing surfaces
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