Symmetric Willmore surfaces of revolution satisfying natural boundary conditions

Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-378

  Bergner, Matthias ^a   Dall'Acqua, Anna ^b   Fröhlich, Steffen ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 77958010150     PISSN: 09442669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00526-010-0313-7     Document Type: Article

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