Capillary surfaces in wedge domains

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 236, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283-305

  Chen, Jin Tzu ^a   Finn, Robert ^b   Miersemann, Erich ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capillarity; Comparison method; Corner behavior; Mean curvature

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749128091     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.2008.236.283     Document Type: Article

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