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Decomposition of the Height Function of Scherk's First Surface

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v3 Soft Condensed Matter Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We show that Scherk's first surface, a one-parameter family of solutions to the minimal surface equation, may be written as a linear superposition of other solutions with specific parametric values.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math-ph/0008039,
  title  = {Decomposition of the Height Function of Scherk's First Surface},
  author = {Randall D. Kamien},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0008039},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Corrected typos, version to be published, 5 pages, harvmac

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