Embedded minimal surfaces, exotic spheres, and manifolds with positive Ricci curvature

DOI10.2307/2007026zbMATH Open0521.53007OpenAlexW2320897328WikidataQ56519613 ScholiaQ56519613MaRDI QIDQ1055009FDOQ1055009

Authors: Leon Simon, William H. III Meeks, Shing-Tung Yau 

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2007026

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci curvaturemean curvatureminimal surfaceembedded surfacearea functionalthree-manifoldirreducible three- manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

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