The classical theory of minimal surfaces

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01334-9zbMath1232.53003WikidataQ55896133 ScholiaQ55896133MaRDI QIDQ3097936

Joaquín Pérez, William Hamilton III Meeks

Publication date: 10 November 2011

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

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityJacobi functionminimal surfaceharmonic functionfinite total curvaturerecurrenceharmonic measuretransienceKorteweg-de Vries equationKdV hierarchycurvature estimatesconformal structuremaximum principle at infinityindex of stabilityminimal laminationparabolic Riemann surfacelocally simply connectedalgebro-geometric potentiallimit tangent plane at infinityShiffman functionminimal planar domainparking garageuniversal superharmonic function

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) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02)

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