Timelike Minimal Submanifolds of General Co-dimension in Minkowski Spacetime
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We consider the timelike minimal surface problem in Minkowski spacetimes and show local and global existence of such surfaces having arbitrary dimension ≥ 2 and arbitrary co-dimension, provided they are initially close to a flat plane.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005