On the regularity of timelike extremal surfaces

DOI10.1142/S0219199714500485zbMath1310.58009arXiv1211.3162MaRDI QIDQ5496351

Giandomenico Orlandi, Matteo Novaga, Robert Leon Jerrard

Publication date: 30 January 2015

Published in: Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3162

zbMATH Keywords

singular set; regularity of minimal surfaces; timelike surfaces; relativistic strings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B65: Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs

35L20: Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations

53C42: Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.)

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