The index theorem for classical minimal surfaces

DOI10.2307/2006993zbMath0482.58010OpenAlexW2316674544MaRDI QIDQ1162740

Reinhold Böhme, Anthony J. Tromba

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2006993

zbMATH Keywords

bifurcations and stability of minimal surfacesbranched minimal surfaces in n-spaceindex of stability of minimal surfacesstratification of harmonic surfaces with prescribed singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Stratified sets (58A35) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Variational problems in abstract bifurcation theory in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E07)

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