Embedded minimal surfaces in manifolds diffeomorphic to the three-dimensional ball or sphere

DOI10.4310/jdg/1214443602zbMath0682.53056OpenAlexW1512196425WikidataQ115182499 ScholiaQ115182499MaRDI QIDQ1824222

Juergen Jost

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214443602

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfaceminimal disksminimax-proceduresaddle-point constructiontheorem of Lusternik-Schnirelman

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

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