On the global structure of crystalline surfaces

DOI10.1007/BF02574687MaRDI QIDQ2276765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean E. Taylor

Publication date 1991

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/131156

zbMATH Keywords

cornerscrystalline minimal surfacepolygonal boundaryWulff shape

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80)

Review text

The author considers a crystalline material whose surface energy density per unit area is a function \(\Phi\) over the direction sphere \(S^ 2\) which is such that its Wulff shape W is polyhedral. Here W is the intersection of all the half spaces \(\{x:\;x\cdot \nu \leq \Phi (\nu),\quad \nu \in S^ 2\}.\) She establishes the following upper bound for the number of interior corners in a crystalline minimal surface S which is polyhedral and has a polygonal boundary: \((1+A/a+\pi /A)(N_ B- 2\chi (S)),\) where \(N_ B\) is the number of segments in the boundary of S, \(\chi\) (S) is the Euler characteristic of S and a, A are the minimal and maximal areas in the decomposition of \(S^ 2\) into spherical polygons by the generalized Gauss map of W. The bound requires certain assumptions on S, too complicated to describe here. The author proves a much better bound using more information about the boundary of S and the structure of S along that boundary as well as similar bounds on the number of plane segments in S.

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