How to blow infinitely large soap bubbles with a fixed boundary

  • Rugang Ye

    Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A.

Abstract

Consider (area minimizing) soap bubbles (i. e. surfaces of constant mean curvature) spanning a Jordan curve in . We show that they converge to infinitely large minimal surfaces spanning as their volumes approach infinity.

Résumé

On considère des bulles de savon (i.e. des surfaces de courbure moyenne constante) à bord d’une courbe Jordan . Nous démontrons qu’ils convergent vers des surfaces minimales infiniment larges à bord si leur volume tend vers l’infini.

Cite this article

Rugang Ye, How to blow infinitely large soap bubbles with a fixed boundary. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 8 (1991), no. 1, pp. 59–78

DOI 10.1016/S0294-1449(16)30277-3