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The global theory of doubly periodic minimal surfaces

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, 01003, Amherst, MA, USA

    William H. Meeks III

  2. Department of Mathematics, Université de Paris 7, F-75251, Paris, France

    Harold Rosenberg

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The research described in this paper was supported by research grant DE-FG02-86ER250125 of the Applied Mathematical Science subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation grant DMS-8611574

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Meeks, W.H., Rosenberg, H. The global theory of doubly periodic minimal surfaces. Invent Math 97, 351–379 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01389046

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