Almost every curve in \(R^3\) bounds a unique area minimizing surface

DOI10.1007/BF01403171zbMath0378.49028MaRDI QIDQ1246900

Frank Morgan

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142547

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53A10: Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

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