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Extending the variational approach to Plateau’s problem developed in [6], we show that similar results can be obtained for surfaces normalized by a 3-point condition. Moreover, we supply further details for the regularity results in [6].
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Imbusch, C., Struwe, M. (1999). Variational Principles for Minimal Surfaces. In: Escher, J., Simonett, G. (eds) Topics in Nonlinear Analysis. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and Their Applications, vol 35. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8765-6_19
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