scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1069221

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This paper consists of lecture notes taken during a course on minimal surfaces and Teichmüller theory which the author delivered in 1992. The paper is at the same time a survey of basic classical results and a presentation of recent results, including the author's work. There are three parts. The first part deals with Plateau's problem for orientable and non-orientable surfaces of arbitrary genus in Euclidean space and in Riemannian manifolds. In the second part, the author gives a brief review of Teichmüller theory for orientable Riemann surfaces, including a discussion of the Weil-Petersson metric. He then introduces an enlarged Teichmüller space, including both orientable and nonorientable Riemann surfaces, which is stratified by genus. In the third part, the author considers the Dirichlet energy functional on this enlarged Teichmüller space and he discusses the behaviour of this functional near lower dimensional strata. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0870.00033].











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