The existence of least area surfaces in $3$-manifolds
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This paper presents a new and unified approach to the existence theorems for least area surfaces in $3$-manifolds.References
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- © Copyright 1988 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 310 (1988), 87-114
- MSC: Primary 53A10; Secondary 57M35, 57N10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1988-0965747-6
- MathSciNet review: 965747