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Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
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Bifurcation of minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds

Author(s): Jürgen Jost; Xianqing Li-Jost; Xiao Wei Peng
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 347 (1995), 51-62.
MSC: Primary 58E20; Secondary 53C22, 58E10
Correction(s): Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 4689-4690.
MathSciNet review: 1270663
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Abstract: We study the bifurcation of closed minimal surfaces in Riemannian manifolds through higher order variations of the area functional and relate it to elementary catastrophes.


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Additional Information:

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-1995-1270663-2
PII: S0002-9947-1995-1270663-2
Keywords: Minimal submanifolds, bifurcation
Copyright of article: Copyright 1995, American Mathematical Society




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