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单词 MinimalSurface
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minimal surface


Among the surfaces  F(x,y,z)=0,  with F twice continuously differentiable, a minimal surfaceMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath is such that in every of its points, the mean curvatureMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath vanishes.  Because the mean curvature is the arithmetic meanMathworldPlanetmath of the principal curvaturesMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath ϰ1 and ϰ2, the equation

ϰ2=-ϰ1

is valid in each point of a minimal surface.

A minimal surface has also the property that every sufficiently little portion of it has smaller area than any other regular surface with the same boundary curve.

Trivially, a plane is a minimal surface.  The catenoidMathworldPlanetmath is the only surface of revolution which is also a minimal surface.

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