The Morse Index of a Minimal Surface

DOI10.1090/noti2291zbMath1472.53003MaRDI QIDQ5006162

Otis Chodosh, Davi Maximo

Publication date: 12 August 2021

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2291

zbMATH Keywords

second variation of area; first variation of area; harmonic form method; index and topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

53-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry

58E12: Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables)