Decomposition of the Height Function of Scherk's First Surface

2000/08/31 by Randall D. Kamien · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #math-ph #cond-mat.soft #math.DG #math.MP

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published as Appl. Math. Lett. 14 (2001) 797 · Corrected typos, version to be published, 5 pages, harvmac

arxiv created 2000/12/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We show that Scherk's first surface, a one-parameter family of solutions to the minimal surface equation, may be written as a linear superposition of other solutions with specific parametric values.

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