Regularity of variational maximal surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF02392297zbMath0667.53049OpenAlexW2013529084MaRDI QIDQ1117482

Robert Bartnik

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Acta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02392297

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet problemspacelike hypersurfaceprescribed mean curvatureinterior gradient estimateLorentzian space timerough boundary data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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