Colloquium: Soap bubble clusters

DOI10.1103/RevModPhys.79.821zbMath1205.53009MaRDI QIDQ3077058

Frank Morgan

Publication date: 21 February 2011

Published in: Reviews of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible viscous fluids (76D45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10)

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Cites Work

• The standard double soap bubble in \(\mathbb{R}^ 2\) uniquely minimizes perimeter
• The structure of area-minimizing double bubbles
• The honeycomb conjecture
• Proof of the double bubble conjecture
• Proof of the double bubble conjecture in \(\mathbb{R}^4\) and certain higher dimensional cases.
• Regularity of area-minimizing surfaces in 3D polytopes and of invariant hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb R^n\)
• Proof of the planar triple bubble conjecture
• Isoperimetric inequalities in crystallography
• The Surface Evolver

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