A Course in Minimal Surfaces - Couverture souple

Colding, Tobias Holck; II, William P. Minicozzi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1470476401 ISBN 13 : 9781470476403

Editeur : American Mathematical Society, 2011

Synopsis

Minimal surfaces date back to Euler and Lagrange and the beginning of the calculus of variations. Many of the techniques developed have played key roles in geometry and partial differential equations. Examples include monotonicity and tangent cone analysis originating in the regularity theory for minimal surfaces, estimates for nonlinear equations based on the maximum principle arising in Bernstein's classical work, and even Lebesgue's definition of the integral that he developed in his thesis on the Plateau problem for minimal surfaces. This book starts with the classical theory of minimal surfaces and ends up with current research topics. Of the various ways of approaching minimal surfaces (from complex analysis, PDE, or geometric measure theory), the authors have chosen to focus on the PDE aspects of the theory. The book also contains some of the applications of minimal surfaces to other fields including low dimensional topology, general relativity, and materials science. The only prerequisites needed for this book are a basic knowledge of Riemannian geometry and some familiarity with the maximum principle.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tobias Holck Colding, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

William P. Minicozzi II, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: American Mathematical Society
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1470476401
• ISBN 13: 9781470476403
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 313
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