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Minimal Submanifolds

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The theory of minimal submanifolds is one of the most beautiful and developed subjects of differential geometry. The aim of this chapter is to introduce a few of its general aspects.

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    Marcos Dajczer

  2. Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil

    Ruy Tojeiro

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Dajczer, M., Tojeiro, R. (2019). Minimal Submanifolds. In: Submanifold Theory . Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9644-5_3

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