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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811893003321

Autore

Lawlor Gary R (Gary Reid), <1961->

Titolo

A sufficient criterion for a cone to be area-minimizing / / Gary R. Lawlor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-4704-0872-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; Volume 91, Number 446

Disciplina

515/.42

Soggetti

Geometric measure theory

Cone

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 1991, volume 91, number 446 (third of 4 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Table of Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: A Minimization Test for Cones""; ""1.1 The retraction II""; ""1.2 The curvature criterion""; ""1.3 Simplifications""; ""1.4 Table of vanishing angles""; ""Chapter 2: Calibrations""; ""2.1 Preliminary definitions""; ""2.2 Zero curvature""; ""2.3 Nonzero curvature""; ""2.4 Relationships between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3: The Differential Equation""; ""3.1 Overview""; ""3.2 Zero curvature""; ""3.3 General curvature""; ""3.4 Numerical analysis of the differential equation""

""Chapter 4: Cones for Which the Criterion is Necessary as Well as Sufficient""""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 General setup""; ""4.3 Codimension 1""; ""4.4 Higher codimension""; ""Chapter 5: Examples of Area-minimizing Cones""; ""5.1 Cones over products of spheres""; ""5.2 Cones over unorientable manifolds""; ""5.3 Unions of planes""; ""5.4 Cones over compact matrix groups""; ""5.5 Codimension 1 cones over orbits of group actions""; ""Chapter 6: Some Perturbation Results""; ""6.1 The strict curvature criterion""; ""6.2 Calibration of a nearby minimal graph""

""6.3 Minimal surfaces in a neighborhood of a singularity""""6.4 A persistent singularity in a minimizing surface""; ""Chapter 7: Open Questions""; ""Appendix""; ""References""