Hypersurfaces with mean curvature given by an ambient sobolev function

Journal of Differential Geometry

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 371-420

  Schätzle, Reiner ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0035413044     PISSN: 0022040X     EISSN: 1945743X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1090348353     Document Type: Article

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