Soap films bounded by non-closed curves

Journal of Geometric Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 239-250

  Drachman, Jordan ^a   White, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knots; Soap film like minimal surfaces; Stationary varifolds

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009916424     PISSN: 10506926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02921642     Document Type: Article

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