Some examples of critical points for the total mean curvature functional

Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 587-603

  Arroyo, Josu ^a   Barros, Manuel ^b   Garay, Oscar J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical points; Total curvature; Total tension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041314656     PISSN: 00130915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091500021210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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