scholarly journals A Spin-Perturbation for Minimal Surfaces

Author(s):  
Ruijun Wu

AbstractWe investigate the coupling of the minimal surface equation with a spinor of harmonic type. This arises as the Euler–Lagrange equations of the sum of the volume functional and the Dirac action, defined on an appropriated Dirac bundle. The solutions show a relation to Dirac-harmonic maps under some constraints on the energy-momentum tensor, extending the relation between Riemannian minimal surface and harmonic maps.

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirk E. Lancaster

LetΩbe a domain inR2which is locally convex at each point of its boundary except possibly one, say(0,0),ϕbe continuous on∂Ω/{(0,0)}with a jump discontinuity at(0,0)andfbe the unique variational solution of the minimal surface equation with boundary valuesϕ. Then the radial limits offat(0,0)from all directions inΩexist. If the radial limits all lie between the lower and upper limits ofϕat(0,0), then the radial limits offare weakly monotonic; if not, they are weakly increasing and then decreasing (or the reverse). Additionally, their behavior near the extreme directions is examined and a conjecture of the author's is proven.


2001 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
LUIS J. ALÍAS ◽  
BENNETT PALMER

In this note we show how classical Bernstein's theorem on minimal surfaces in the Euclidean space can be seen as a consequence of Calabi-Bernstein's theorem on maximal surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space (and viceversa). This follows from a simple but nice duality between solutions to their corresponding differential equations.


1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil S. Trudinger

Strongly differentiable solutions of the minimal surface equation are shown to be classical solutions and consequently locally analytic. A global regularity result is also proved.


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