The second variation of nonorientable minimal submanifolds

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3093-3104

  Ross, Marty ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Box 252 80 ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Bernstein theorem; Nonorientable minimal surface; Second variation; Stable

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744440032     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01936-3     Document Type: Article

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