Plateau's problem

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-32162-2_7MaRDI QIDQ2826810zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jenny Harrison, Harrison Pugh

Publication date 18 October 2016

Published in Open Problems in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03797

zbMATH Keywords

area functionminimizationPlateau's problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

Abstract: Plateau's problem is not a single conjecture or theorem, but rather an abstract framework, encompassing a number of different problems in several related areas of mathematics. In its most general form, Plateau's problem is to find an element of a given collection (cal{C} ) of "surfaces" specified by some boundary constraint, which minimizes, or is a critical point of, a given "area" function (F:cal{C} o R ). In addition, one should also show that any such element satisfies some sort of regularity, that it be a sufficiently smooth manifold away from a well-behaved singular set. The choices apparent in making this question precise lead to a great many different versions of the problem. Plateau's problem has generated a large number of papers, inspired new fields of mathematics, and given rise to techniques which have proved useful in applications further afield. In this review we discuss a few highlights from the past hundred years, with special attention to papers of Federer, Fleming, Reifenberg and Almgren from the 1960's, and works by several groups, including ourselves, who have made significant progress on different aspects of the problem in recent years. A number of open problems are presented.

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