The classical Plateau problem and the topology of three-dimensional manifolds. The embedding of the solution given by Douglas-Morrey and an analytic proof of Dehn's lemma
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Publication:1166803
DOI10.1016/0040-9383(82)90021-0zbMath0489.57002OpenAlexW2005899545MaRDI QIDQ1166803
Shing Tung Yau, William Hamilton III Meeks
Publication date: 1982
Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(82)90021-0
analytic proof of Dehn's lemmaDouglas solution for an extremal Jordan curveembedded solutionsgeneralization of Dehn's lemmaMorrey solution to the Plateau problem for a Jordan curve
Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Variational problems concerning extremal problems in several variables; Yang-Mills functionals (58E15)
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