Minimal surfaces bounded by a pair of convex planar curves

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-15983-5zbMath0752.53007MaRDI QIDQ3970509

Brian White, William Hamilton III Meeks

Publication date: 25 June 1992

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

zbMATH Keywords

minimal annuliPlateau's problemindex of stabilityDehn's lemmaMeek's conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12)

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