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Surfaces of Minimal Area Supported by a Given Body in ℝ3

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Variational Methods

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Existence theory in the “Plateau problem” is mostly concerned with surfaces spanning some given boundary configuration ([A], [Cou], [HiN], [GJ], [S], to quote a few).

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna, Italy

    G. Mancini

  2. SISSA, Trieste, Italy

    R. Musina

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  1. Mathématiques, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Henri Berestycki

  2. Département de Mathématiques, Bâtiment 425, Université de Paris-Sud, Centre d’Orsay, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France

    Jean-Michel Coron

  3. CEREMADE, Université de Paris IX-Dauphine, 75775, Paris Cedex 16, France

    Ivar Ekeland

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Mancini, G., Musina, R. (1990). Surfaces of Minimal Area Supported by a Given Body in ℝ3 . In: Berestycki, H., Coron, JM., Ekeland, I. (eds) Variational Methods. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 4. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1080-9_22

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