On the existence of embedded minimal 2-spheres in the 3-sphere, endowed with an arbitrary metric

DOI10.1017/S0004972700026216zbMath0511.49021OpenAlexW2020704152MaRDI QIDQ4748701

Francis R. Smith

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0004972700026216

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

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