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Plateau's problem for H-convex curves

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Various uniqueness results and non-uniqueness results for minimal surfaces are derived together with applications to boundary estimates and to finiteness theorems.

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Reasearch supported in part by NSF Grant 9210790.

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Lin, FH. Plateau's problem for H-convex curves. Manuscripta Math 58, 497–511 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01277607

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