Plateau's Problem

The problem in Calculus of Variations to find the Minimal Surface of a boundary with specified constraints.In general, there may be one, multiple, or no Minimal Surfaces spanning a given closed curve in space.

References

Cundy, H. and Rollett, A. Mathematical Models, 3rd ed. Stradbroke, England: Tarquin Pub., pp. 48-49, 1989.

Stuwe, M. Plateau's Problem and the Calculus of Variations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

• Donaldson Invariants
• Donkin's Theorem
• Donut
• Doob's Theorem
• Dot
• Dot Product
• Variate
• Variation
• Variation Coefficient
• Variation of Argument
• Variation of Parameters
• Variety
• Varignon Parallelogram
• Varignon's Theorem
• Vassiliev Polynomial
• Vault
• Vector
• Vector Bundle
• Vector Derivative
• Vector Direct Product
• Vector Division
• Vector Field
• Vector Function
• Vector Harmonic
• Vector Integral