On the problem of Plateau
Since the thesis of Lebesgue, and most particularly in the last decade, the study of the problem of Plateau and associated questions has made remarkable advances. This short book is an excellent record of that progress. Chapter I is concerned with surfaces, with Lebesgue area and its ins representation, with compound mappings and wich representations of Jordan curves. Chapter II collects the necessary differential properties of minimal surfaces. In Chapter III the statement of the problem of Plateau, ``to find a minimal surface bounded by a given curve, is analyzed; with restriction to surfaces of the type of the circle, four statements of the parametric problem are distinguished, according to tbe nature of singularities allowed on the surface. The interrelations of these problems are discussed. Properties of minimal surfaces in the large are developed in so far as needed for Iater chapters. Chapter IV proceeds to the non-parametric problem. A minimal surface $z = z (x, y)$ with prescribed boundary values satisfying a three point condition is found by use of Haar's theorem of existence and Radö's theorem of analyticity. Chapter V takes up the parametric problem. It begins with a statement of the results of Garnier, with just enough detail to show why this solution applies only to not-knotted curves (a detailed report being impossxible within the compass of the book). The solutions of the Plateau problem due to Douglas and to Radö are then given in. detail, only a few computations being omitted. Recent simplifications by both authors are utilized. Chapter VI treats the simultaneous problem of finding for a given boundary a minimal surface which at the same time has the least possible area for that boundary. Radö's solution is given, then that of Douglas with the extension to curves bounding only surfaees of infinite area, and then a third solution by McShane. Then follow theorems interrelating solutions of the problem of Plateau and that of least area. The book coneludes with a brief review of Douglas' solution of the Plateau problem for surfaces of the type of the Möbius strip.
- Triply periodic minimal surfaces bounded by vertical symmetry planes
- On minimal surfaces with free boundaries in given homotopy classes
- Periodic minimal surfaces and Weyl groups
- On a problem of A. Pleijel
- Extending minimal varieties
- Non-existence, non-uniqueness and irregularity of solutions to the minimal surface system
- The Plateau-Douglas problem for nonorientable minimal surfaces
- The Plateau problem
- Some strange properties of minimal surfaces in connection with Plateau's problem
- On the Morse number of embedded and non-embedded minimal immersions spanning wires on the boundary of special bodies in \({\mathbb{R}}^ 3\)
- Graphical translators for mean curvature flow
- The Plateau problem for spiral curves
- Absolute uniqueness of minimal surfaces bounded by contours with a one-to-one projection onto a plane
- Über das Randverhalten von Minimalflächen
- On some non-linear elliptic differential functional equations
- Coordinate invariance of linear continuity
- Surfaces of constant mean curvature which have a simple projection
- The Plateau-Douglas problem for singular configurations and in general metric spaces
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- A parametric variational principle for minimal surfaces of varying topological type.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5003425 (Why is no real title available?)
- Conformal representation of surfaces, and Plateau's problem for Cartan functionals
- Plateau’s problem for infinite contours
- Size minimizing surfaces
- A survey of the geometric results in the classical theory of minimal surfaces
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- Existence theorems for minimal surfaces of nonzero genus spanning a contour
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4082382 (Why is no real title available?)
- Il problema di dirichlet per l’equazione delle superfici minime
- SINGULAR CURVES AND THE PLATEAU PROBLEM
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- Plateaus problem for parametric double integrals: II. Regularity at the boundary
- Soap film solutions to Plateau's problem
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- Probl\`eme de Plateau, \'equations fuchsiennes et probl\`eme de Riemann-Hilbert
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- One-dimensional Plateau problem on surfaces
- A diameter bound for compact surfaces and the Plateau-Douglas problem
- Stationary minimal surfaces with boundary on a simplex
- Plateau's problem and Riemann's mapping theorem
- A non-parametric Plateau problem with partial free boundary
- On the singular planar Plateau problem
- How a minimal surface leaves an obstacle
- Non-parametric surfaces given by linearly continuous functions
- On the oriented Plateau problem
- On the numerical solution of Plateau's problem
- Remarques sur le problème extérieur de Plateau. (Remarks on the exterior problem of Plateau)
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