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December 2003 From Delaunay to the Hopf problem : on bubbles and curvature
Luc Lemaire
Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 10(4): 505-523 (December 2003). DOI: 10.36045/bbms/1070645798

Abstract

Is any soap bubble necessarily a Euclidean sphere ? In this expository text, we show how this simple question has led over the years to developments in many fields of mathematics.

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Luc Lemaire. "From Delaunay to the Hopf problem : on bubbles and curvature." Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 10 (4) 505 - 523, December 2003. https://doi.org/10.36045/bbms/1070645798

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Published: December 2003
First available in Project Euclid: 5 December 2003

zbMATH: 1059.53012
MathSciNet: MR2040527
Digital Object Identifier: 10.36045/bbms/1070645798

Subjects:
Primary: 53A10 , 53C42

Keywords: surfaces of constant mean curvature

Rights: Copyright © 2003 The Belgian Mathematical Society

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