Geodesics and soap bubbles in surfaces

DOI10.1007/PL00004560zbMATH Open0865.53009MaRDI QIDQ5961423FDOQ5961423

Authors: Joel R. Hass, Frank Morgan 

Publication date: 20 February 1997

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/174916

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zbMATH Keywords

minimal lengthcurves bounding certain domains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cited In (16)

• On the curves of minimal length on spheres in real Hilbert spaces
• Instability of the wet \(X\) soap film
• A note by Poincaré
• The graphs of planar soap bubbles
• Geodesics, soap bubbles and pattern formation in Riemannian surfaces
• Minimal networks on balls and spheres for almost standard metrics
• On the shape of giant soap bubbles
• Stability of convex disks
• Existence of curves with constant geodesic curvature in a Riemannian 2-sphere
• The isoperimetric problem on surfaces of revolution of decreasing Gauss curvature
• Geodesic nets on the 2-sphere
• Iterated medial triangle subdivision in surfaces of constant curvature
• A geometric approach to bubbling
• Constructing monotone homotopies and sweepouts
• Geometry and Soap Bubbles
• Slicing a 2-sphere

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