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Author Struwe, Michael, 1955- author.

Title Plateau's problem and the calculus of variations / by Michael Struwe
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1988
©1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : illustrations
Series Mathematical notes ; 35
Princeton legacy library
Mathematical notes (Princeton University Press) ; 35.
Contents A. The "classical" plateau problem for disctype minimal surfaces: Existence of a solution -- Unstable minimal surfaces -- B. Surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvature: The existence of surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvature spanning a Jordan curve in IR3 -- Unstable H-surfaces
Summary This book is meant to give an account of recent developments in the theory of Plateau's problem for parametric minimal surfaces and surfaces of prescribed constant mean curvature ("H-surfaces") and its analytical framework. A comprehensive overview of the classical existence and regularity theory for disc-type minimal and H-surfaces is given and recent advances toward general structure theorems concerning the existence of multiple solutions are explored in full detail.The book focuses on the author's derivation of the Morse-inequalities and in particular the mountain-pass-lemma of Morse-Tompkins and Shiffman for minimal surfaces and the proof of the existence of large (unstable) H-surfaces (Rellich's conjecture) due to Brezis-Coron, Steffen, and the author. Many related results are covered as well. More than the geometric aspects of Plateau's problem (which have been exhaustively covered elsewhere), the author stresses the analytic side. The emphasis lies on the variational method.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-148)
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Subject Minimal surfaces.
Plateau's problem.
Global analysis (Mathematics)
Calculus of variations.
MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- Differential.
MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- General.
Calculus of variations.
Global analysis (Mathematics)
Minimal surfaces.
Plateau's problem.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 88017963
ISBN 9781400860210
1400860210
9780691085104
0691085102