Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity

DOI10.1073/pnas.1015997107zbMath1256.53007WikidataQ46866702 ScholiaQ46866702MaRDI QIDQ4907451

Raymond E. Goldstein, Adriana Pesci, Renzo L. Ricca, Henry Keith Moffatt

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 surfaces; Möbius strip; finite-time twist singularity; looped wire

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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