Area-Minimizing Surfaces, Faces of Grassmannians, and Calibrations

DOI10.2307/2322896zbMath0672.49028OpenAlexW1976379213WikidataQ125937615 ScholiaQ125937615MaRDI QIDQ3825637

Frank Morgan

Publication date: 1988

Published in: The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2322896

zbMATH Keywords

calibrationsarea-minimizing surfacesfaces of Grassmanniansangle conjectureFace Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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