A homological characterization of foliations consisting of minimal surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF02566269zbMath0409.57025MaRDI QIDQ1259058

Dennis Sullivan

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/139780

zbMATH Keywords

F-Closed FormsFoliations By Minimal SubmanifoldsPurification of Forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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