The geometric calculus of variations: A short survey and a list of open problems

zbMath0645.49001MaRDI QIDQ1103176

Juergen Jost

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

minimal surfacesharmonic mapsgeometric evolution equationssurfaces of constant mean curvaturegeometrical calculus of variations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Geometric theory, characteristics, transformations in context of PDEs (35A30) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control (49-02)

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