Immersed solutions of Plateau's problem for piecewise smooth boundary curves with small total curvature

DOI10.1007/S00025-012-0239-9zbMATH Open1268.49046arXiv1103.1340OpenAlexW1997933067MaRDI QIDQ351085FDOQ351085

Authors: Laura Desideri, Ruben Jakob 

Publication date: 11 July 2013

Published in: Results in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a new proof of the classical result that any closed rectifiable Jordan curve Gamma in space being piecewise of class C^2 bounds at least one immersed minimal surface of disc-type, under the additional assumption that the total curvature of Gamma is smaller than 6*Pi. In contrast to the methods due to Osserman, Gulliver and Alt, our proof relies on a polygonal approximation technique, using the existence of immersed solutions of Plateau's problem for polygonal boundary curves, provided by the first author's accomplishment of Garnier's ideas.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1340

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zbMATH Keywords

Plateau's problemclosed rectifiable Jordan curveimmersed solutionsminimal surface of disc-typepiecewise smoothtotal curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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