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Plateau's problem : an invitation to varifold geometry
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ISSN: 15209121 ISBN: 0821827472 9780821827475 Year: 2001 Volume: 13 Publisher: Providence RI : American Mathematical Society

The Problem of Plateau : a tribute to Jesse Douglas & Tibor Radó
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ISBN: 9810205562 9789810205560 Year: 1992 Publisher: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ World Scientific

The index theorem for minimal surfaces of higher genus
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ISSN: 00659266 ISBN: 0821803522 Year: 1995 Publisher: Providence (R.I.): American Mathematical Society


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Plateau's Problem and the Calculus of Variations. (MN-35)
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ISBN: 0691085102 0691607753 1400860210 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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This book is meant to give an account of recent developments in the theory of Plateau's problem for parametric minimal surfaces and surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvature ("H-surfaces") and its analytical framework. A comprehensive overview of the classical existence and regularity theory for disc-type minimal and H-surfaces is given and recent advances toward general structure theorems concerning the existence of multiple solutions are explored in full detail.The book focuses on the author's derivation of the Morse-inequalities and in particular the mountain-pass-lemma of Morse-Tompkins and Shiffman for minimal surfaces and the proof of the existence of large (unstable) H-surfaces (Rellich's conjecture) due to Brezis-Coron, Steffen, and the author. Many related results are covered as well. More than the geometric aspects of Plateau's problem (which have been exhaustively covered elsewhere), the author stresses the analytic side. The emphasis lies on the variational method.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Calculus of variations. --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- Minimal surfaces. --- Plateau's problem. --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- MATHEMATICS / Geometry / Differential. --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Isoperimetrical problems --- Variations, Calculus of --- Maxima and minima --- Minimal surface problem --- Plateau problem --- Problem of Plateau --- Minimal surfaces --- Surfaces, Minimal --- Banach space. --- Bernhard Riemann. --- Big O notation. --- Boundary value problem. --- Branch point. --- C0. --- Closed geodesic. --- Compact space. --- Complex analysis. --- Complex number. --- Conformal map. --- Conjecture. --- Contradiction. --- Convex curve. --- Convex set. --- Differentiable function. --- Direct method in the calculus of variations. --- Dirichlet integral. --- Dirichlet problem. --- Embedding. --- Estimation. --- Euler–Lagrange equation. --- Existential quantification. --- Geometric measure theory. --- Global analysis. --- Jordan curve theorem. --- Linear differential equation. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Mathematical problem. --- Mathematician. --- Maximum principle. --- Mean curvature. --- Metric space. --- Minimal surface. --- Modulus of continuity. --- Morse theory. --- Nonparametric statistics. --- Normal (geometry). --- Parallel projection. --- Parameter space. --- Parametrization. --- Partial differential equation. --- Quadratic growth. --- Quantity. --- Riemann mapping theorem. --- Second derivative. --- Sign (mathematics). --- Special case. --- Surface area. --- Tangent space. --- Theorem. --- Total curvature. --- Uniform convergence. --- Variational method (quantum mechanics). --- Variational principle. --- W0. --- Weak solution.

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