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Global Existence and Uniqueness of Minimal Surfaces in Globally Hyperbolic Manifolds

Differential Geometry 2016-05-20 v5 Mathematical Physics Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In this note a proof is given for global existence and uniqueness of minimal surfaces of Lorentzian type from a cylinder into globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds for given initial values up to the first derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.math/0210352,
  title  = {Global Existence and Uniqueness of Minimal Surfaces in Globally Hyperbolic Manifolds},
  author = {Olaf Müller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0210352},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Submitted to Mathematische Annalen, one proof changed. 10 pages, no figures