Non-local minimal surfaces

Friday, March 23, 2012 - 16:00 to 16:50
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Ovidiu Savin
Professor
Columbia University

Abstract or Additional Information

We describe the geometric properties, existence, regularity and related issues for a family of surfaces which are boundaries of sets minimizing certain integral norms. These surfaces can be interpreted as non-infinitesimal versions of classical minimal surfaces.

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