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On the area of minimal surfaces in a slab

Differential Geometry 2015-03-11 v1

Abstract

Consider a non-planar orientable minimal surface S in a slab which is possibly with genus or with more than two boundary components. We show that there exists a catenoidal waist W in the slab whose flux has the same vertical component as S such that Area(S)>= Area(W), provided the intersections of S with horizontal planes have the same orientation.

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@article{arxiv.1503.02771,
  title  = {On the area of minimal surfaces in a slab},
  author = {Jaigyoung Choe and Benoit Daniel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02771},
  year   = {2015}
}