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Timelike Minimal Submanifolds of General Co-dimension in Minkowski SpaceTime

Differential Geometry 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension 2\geq 2 and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.

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@article{arxiv.math/0512036,
  title  = {Timelike Minimal Submanifolds of General Co-dimension in Minkowski SpaceTime},
  author = {Paul Allen and Lars Andersson and James Isenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0512036},
  year   = {2007}
}

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9 pages