Regularity of minimal surfaces : a self-contained proof
Institution: | University of British Columbia |
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Department: | Mathematics |
Degree: | MS- MSc |
Year: | 2015 |
Record ID: | 2060444 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52820 |
In this thesis, a self-contained proof is given of the regularity of minimal surfaces via viscosity solutions, following the ideas of L.Caffarelli,X.Cabré [2], O.Savin[11][12], E.Giusti[7] and J.Roquejoffre[8], where we expand upon the ideas and give full details on the approach. Basically the proof of the program consists of four parts: 1) Density and measure estimates, 2) Viscosity solution methods of elliptic equations , 3) a geometric Harnack inequality and 4) iteration of the De Giorgi flatness result.