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We show that every compactly supported smoothly calibrated integral current with connected $C^{3,\alpha}$ boundary is the unique solution to the oriented Plateau problem for its boundary data. The same holds true for compactly supported…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Bryan Dimler , Chen-Kuan Lee

Following on from ``Hyperbolic Plateau problems'' (by the same author), we provide a complete geometric description of solutions to the Plateau problem $(S,\phi)$ when $S$ is a compact Riemann surface with a finite number of points removed.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Graham Smith

We prove a generalization of Reifenberg's isoperimetric inequality. The main result of this paper is used to establish existence of a minimizer for an anisotropically-weighted area functional among a collection of surfaces which satisfies a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Harrison Pugh

In this paper, we shall study the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surfaces equation. We prove some results about the boundary behaviour of a solution of this problem. We describe the behaviour of a non-converging sequence of solutions in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurent Mazet

This work is on surfaces with a constant ratio of principal curvatures. These CRPC surfaces generalize minimal surfaces but are much more challenging to construct. We propose a construction of a family of such surfaces containing a given…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Mikhail Skopenkov , Khusrav Yorov

We consider a Plateau problem in codimension $1$ in the non-parametric setting. A Dirichlet boundary datum is given only on part of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a bounded convex domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. Where the Dirichlet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Giovanni Bellettini , Roberta Marziani , Riccardo Scala

We solve the Plateau problem for marginally outer trapped surfaces in general Cauchy data sets. We employ the Perron method and tools from geometric measure theory to force and control a blow-up of Jang's equation. Substantial new geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-17 Michael Eichmair

We give a solution of Plateau's problem for singular curves possibly having self-intersections. The proof is based on the solution of Plateau's problem for Jordan curves in very general metric spaces by Alexander Lytchak and Stefan Wenger…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-30 Paul Creutz

In this paper we consider a ``flow'' of nonparametric solutions of the volume constrained Plateau problem with respect to a convex planar curve. Existence and regularity is obtained from standard elliptic theory, and convexity results for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 John McCuan

In mathematics, the classical Plateau problem consists of finding the surface of least area that spans a given rigid boundary curve. A physical realization of the problem is obtained by dipping a stiff wire frame of some given shape in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-05-31 L. Giomi , L. Mahadevan

A review on the classical Plateau problem is presented. Then, the state of the art about the Kirchhoff-Plateau problem is illustrated as well as some possible future directions of research.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Giulia Bevilacqua , Luca Lussardi , Alfredo Marzocchi

We provide a new proof of the classical result that any closed rectifiable Jordan curve Gamma in space being piecewise of class C^2 bounds at least one immersed minimal surface of disc-type, under the additional assumption that the total…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-29 Laura Desideri , Ruben Jakob

Plateau's soap film problem is to find a surface of least area spanning a given boundary. We begin with a compact orientable $(n-2)$-dimensional submanifold $M$ of $\R^n$. If $M$ is connected, we say a compact set $X$ "spans" $M$ if $X$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Jenny Harrison , Harrison Pugh

We present some old and recent regularity results concerning minimal and almost minimal sets in domains of the Euclidean space. We concentrate on a sliding variant of Almgren's notion of minimality, which is well suited in the context of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-12-06 Guy David

We define and prove the existence of unique solutions of an asymptotic Plateau problem for spacelike maximal surfaces in the pseudo-hyperbolic space of signature (2, n): the boundary data is given by loops on the boundary at infinity of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-13 François Labourie , Jérémy Toulisse , Michael Wolf

In this paper we consider the heat flow associated to the classical Plateau problem for surfaces of prescribed mean curvature. We show that an isoperimetric condition on H ensures the existence of a global weak solution. Moreover, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-12 Frank Duzaar , Christoph Scheven

This dissertation is devoted to the resolution of the Plateau problem in the case of polygonal boundary curves in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It relies on the method developed by Ren\'e Garnier and published in 1928 in a paper which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-01 Laura Desideri

We obtain a full resolution result for minimizers in the exterior isoperimetric problem with respect to a compact obstacle in the large volume regime $v\to\infty$. This is achieved by the study of a Plateau-type problem with free boundary…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Francesco Maggi , Michael Novack

We prove an existence theorem for the sliding boundary variant of the Plateau problem for $2$-dimensional sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. The simplest case of sufficient condition is when $n=3$ and the boundary $\Gamma$ is a finite disjoint union…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Guy David , Camille Labourie

Given finitely many pointed forces in the plane. Suppose that these forces sum up to zero and their net torques also sum up to zero. One can show that there exists a system of springs whose boundary forces exactly counter-balance these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Chengcheng Yang