The existence of least area surfaces in 3-manifolds

Joel Hass, Peter Scott

Type: Article

Publication Date: 1988-01-01

Citations: 77

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-1988-0965747-6

Abstract

This paper presents a new and unified approach to the existence theorems for least area surfaces in <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="3"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mn>3</mml:mn> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">3</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula>-manifolds.

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