A wild minimal plane in ℝ³

Andrade, Plácido

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05323-X

A wild minimal plane in $\mathbb {R}^3$
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by Plácido Andrade

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 128 (2000), 1451-1457

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-05323-X

Published electronically: December 8, 1999

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Abstract:

The main object of this article is to construct a complete minimal immersed plane in $\mathbb {R}^3$ whose closure has nonempty interior but it is not dense in the whole space. Furthermore, its Gaussian curvature is bounded.

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