Examples of unknotted curves which bound only surfaces of high genus within their convex hulls

DOI10.2307/1970922MaRDI QIDQ1236352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors William P. Thurston, Frederick J. jun. Almgren

Publication date 1977

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1970922

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) General low-dimensional topology (57M99)

Cited in

(13)

• On the topological characterization of near force-free magnetic fields, and the work of late-onset visually-impaired topologists
• Boundary singularities in mean curvature flow and total curvature of minimal surface boundaries
• Colloquium lectures on geometric measure theory
• Existence of embedded minimal disks
• The mathematics of F. J. Almgren, jun
• Regularity and singularity estimates on hypersurfaces minimizing parametric elliptic variational integrals
• A survey of the geometric results in the classical theory of minimal surfaces
• Embedding problems: Geometric and topological aspects
• Nonclassical minimizing surfaces with smooth boundary
• Classical Invariants for Holomic Knots
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3649559 (Why is no real title available?)
• Desingularizing soap-film-like surfaces
• Cuts for 3-D magnetic scalar potentials: visualizing unintuitive surfaces arising from trivial knots

This page was built for publication: Examples of unknotted curves which bound only surfaces of high genus within their convex hulls

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1236352)