Sufficient conditions for capillary surfaces to be energy minima

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 469-489

  Vogel, Thomas I ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0011218841     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2000.194.469     Document Type: Article

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