Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1015997107MaRDI QIDQ4907451zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Raymond E. Goldstein, Adriana Pesci, H. K. Moffatt, Renzo L. Ricca

Publication date 2 February 2013

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015997107

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesMöbius stripfinite-time twist singularitylooped wire

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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