Minimal Varieties in Riemannian Manifolds

1968/07/01 by James Simons · 1,583 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals #Mathematics #Pure mathematics #Riemannian geometry #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

paper · doi:10.2307/1970556

published in Annals of Mathematics 88(1), 62 (Princeton University)

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