Existence of least-area mappings of N-dimensional domains

DOI10.2307/2006958MaRDI QIDQ595186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brian White

Publication date 1983

Published in Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2006958

zbMATH Keywords

Lipschitz mapPlateau problemsmooth embeddingminimization of m-dimensional mapping area

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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• Graphs of finite mass which cannot be approximated by smooth graphs with equibounded area
• Weak and strong density results for the Dirichlet energy
• Weak notions of Jacobian determinant and relaxation
• Approximation in area of graphs with isolated singularities
• Optimal isoperimetric inequalities
• On sequences of maps into a manifold with equibounded \(W^{1/2}\)-energies
• Minimal surface forms
• Some mathematical challenges in materials science

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