Local Rigidity Theorems for Minimal Hypersurfaces

1969/01/01 by H. Blaine Lawson · 453 citations
Mathematics · #Composite material #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometry and complex manifolds #Mathematics #Point processes and geometric inequalities #Pure mathematics #Rigidity (electromagnetism)

paper · doi:10.2307/1970816

published in Annals of Mathematics 89(1), 187 (Princeton University)

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