Embedded Plateau problem

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05486-3zbMATH Open1242.53069arXiv1005.1723WikidataQ125622755 ScholiaQ125622755MaRDI QIDQ2880680FDOQ2880680

Authors: Baris Coskunuzer 

Publication date: 13 April 2012

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that if C is a simple closed curve bounding an embedded disk in a closed 3-manifold M, then there exists a disk D in M with boundary C such that D minimizes the area among the embedded disks with boundary C. Moreover, D is smooth, minimal and embedded everywhere except where the boundary C meets the interior of D. The same result is also valid for homogenously regular manifolds with sufficiently convex boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1723

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zbMATH Keywords

Plateau problemminimal diskarea minimizing surfacearea minimizing diskembedded Plateau problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

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