## Pacific Journal of Mathematics

### Soap bubbles in ${\bf R}^2$ and in surfaces.

Frank Morgan

#### Article information

Source
Pacific J. Math., Volume 165, Number 2 (1994), 347-361.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 8 December 2004

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102621620

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1300837

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0820.53002

#### Citation

Morgan, Frank. Soap bubbles in ${\bf R}^2$ and in surfaces. Pacific J. Math. 165 (1994), no. 2, 347--361. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pjm/1102621620

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