Area minimization among marginally trapped surfaces in Lorentz-Minkowski space

DOI10.1007/S00526-010-0366-7MaRDI QIDQ543385zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bennett Palmer

Publication date 17 June 2011

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.4332

zbMATH Keywords

boundary valueszero mean curvature surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Local differential geometry of Lorentz metrics, indefinite metrics (53B30) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We study an area minimization problem for spacelike zero mean curvature surfaces in four dimensional Lorentz-Minkowski space. The areas of these surfaces are compared of with the areas of certain marginally trapped surfaces having the same boundary values.

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