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Contours bounding at least three solutions of Plateau's problem

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The preceding research was sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under AFOSR Grant No. 883-67.

The author thanks Professor J. Leavitt for his assistance in the computation of the numerical values r 0 and gd 0.

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Nitsche, J.C.C. Contours bounding at least three solutions of Plateau's problem. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 30, 1–11 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00253243

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