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Minimal surfaces in pseudohermitian geometry

Jih-Hsin Cheng, Jenn-Fang Hwang, Andrea Malchiodi, Paul Yang (2005)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

We consider surfaces immersed in three-dimensional pseudohermitian manifolds. We define the notion of (p-)mean curvature and of the associated (p-)minimal surfaces, extending some concepts previously given for the (flat) Heisenberg group. We interpret the p-mean curvature not only as the tangential sublaplacian of a defining function, but also as the curvature of a characteristic curve, and as a quantity in terms of calibration geometry. As a differential equation, the p-minimal surface equation...

Minimal surfaces in sub-riemannian manifolds and structure of their singular sets in the ( 2 , 3 ) case

Nataliya Shcherbakova (2009)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We study minimal surfaces in sub-riemannian manifolds with sub-riemannian structures of co-rank one. These surfaces can be defined as the critical points of the so-called horizontal area functional associated with the canonical horizontal area form. We derive the intrinsic equation in the general case and then consider in greater detail 2 -dimensional surfaces in contact manifolds of dimension 3 . We show that in this case minimal surfaces are projections of a special class of 2 -dimensional surfaces...

Minimal surfaces in sub-Riemannian manifolds and structure of their singular sets in the (2,3) case

Nataliya Shcherbakova (2008)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We study minimal surfaces in sub-Riemannian manifolds with sub-Riemannian structures of co-rank one. These surfaces can be defined as the critical points of the so-called horizontal area functional associated with the canonical horizontal area form. We derive the intrinsic equation in the general case and then consider in greater detail 2-dimensional surfaces in contact manifolds of dimension 3. We show that in this case minimal surfaces are projections of a special class of 2-dimensional surfaces...

Minimal tori in S4.

U. Pinkall, D. Ferus, I. Sterling (1992)

Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik

Minimizing movements for dislocation dynamics with a mean curvature term

Nicolas Forcadel, Aurélien Monteillet (2009)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We prove existence of minimizing movements for the dislocation dynamics evolution law of a propagating front, in which the normal velocity of the front is the sum of a non-local term and a mean curvature term. We prove that any such minimizing movement is a weak solution of this evolution law, in a sense related to viscosity solutions of the corresponding level-set equation. We also prove the consistency of this approach, by showing that any minimizing movement coincides with the smooth evolution...

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