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FINITENESS OF HIGHER CODIMENSIONAL DISJOINT MINIMAL GRAPHS

  • DONG Yu-Xin ,
  • JI Qing-Chun ,
  • ZHANG Wei
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  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

Received date: 2007-12-30

  Revised date: 2008-10-10

  Online published: 2010-01-20

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The first author is supported by zhongdian grant of NSFC (A010501) and NSFC-NSF (1081112053)  and the second author is supported by  NSFC (10701025).

Abstract

We estimate the number of disjoint open subsets in Rn, which can support area-decreasing minimal graphs. This result generalizes the related results of Li-Wang and Tkachev for minimal hypersurfaces to higher codimensional case.

Cite this article

DONG Yu-Xin , JI Qing-Chun , ZHANG Wei . FINITENESS OF HIGHER CODIMENSIONAL DISJOINT MINIMAL GRAPHS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2010 , 30(1) : 107 -112 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60026-4

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