Barriers to Topologically Minimal Surfaces
Geometric Topology
2009-03-11 v1
Abstract
In earlier work we introduced topologically minimal surfaces as the analogue of geometrically minimal surfaces. Here we strengthen the analogy by showing that complicated amalgamations act as barriers to low genus, topologically minimal surfaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.1692,
title = {Barriers to Topologically Minimal Surfaces},
author = {David Bachman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1692},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 1 figure