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Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variation

Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variation
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Title Minimal Surfaces and Functions of Bounded Variation ([EBook]) / by Enrico Giusti.
Author Giusti, Enrico , 1940-
Other name(s) SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication Boston, MA : Birkhäuser , 1984.
Physical Details XII, 240 pages : online resource.
Series Monographs in mathematics ; 80
ISBN 9781468494860
Summary Note The problem of finding minimal surfaces, i. e. of finding the surface of least area among those bounded by a given curve, was one of the first considered after the foundation of the calculus of variations, and is one which received a satis­ factory solution only in recent years. Called the problem of Plateau, after the blind physicist who did beautiful experiments with soap films and bubbles, it has resisted the efforts of many mathematicians for more than a century. It was only in the thirties that a solution was given to the problem of Plateau in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, with the papers of Douglas [DJ] and Rado [R T1, 2]. The methods of Douglas and Rado were developed and extended in 3-dimensions by several authors, but none of the results was shown to hold even for minimal hypersurfaces in higher dimension, let alone surfaces of higher dimension and codimension. It was not until thirty years later that the problem of Plateau was successfully attacked in its full generality, by several authors using measure-theoretic methods; in particular see De Giorgi [DG1, 2, 4, 5], Reifenberg [RE], Federer and Fleming [FF] and Almgren [AF1, 2]. Federer and Fleming defined a k-dimensional surface in IR" as a k-current, i. e. a continuous linear functional on k-forms. Their method is treated in full detail in the splendid book of Federer [FH 1].:
Contents note I: Parametric Minimal Surfaces -- 1. Functions of Bounded Variation and Caccioppoli Sets -- 2. Traces of BV Functions -- 3. The Reduced Boundary -- 4. Regularity of the Reduced Boundary -- 5. Some Inequalities -- 6. Approximation of Minimal Sets (I) -- 7. Approximation of Minimal Sets (II) -- 8. Regularity of Minimal Surfaces -- 9. Minimal Cones -- 10. The First and Second Variation of the Area -- 11. The Dimension of the Singular Set -- II: Non-Parametric Minimal Surfaces -- 12. Classical Solutions of the Minimal Surface Equation -- 13. The a priori Estimate of the Gradient -- 14. Direct Methods -- 15. Boundary Regularity -- 16. A Further Extension of the Notion of Non-Parametric Minimal Surface -- 17. The Bernstein Problem -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C.
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Internet Site http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9486-0
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