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Noncommutative Minimal Surfaces

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We define noncommutative minimal surfaces in the Weyl algebra, and give a method to construct them by generalizing the well-known Weierstrass representation.

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  1. Department of Math., Linköping University, 581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    Joakim Arnlind

  2. Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 85 Hoegiro Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul, 02455, South Korea

    Jaigyoung Choe

  3. Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jens Hoppe

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Arnlind, J., Choe, J. & Hoppe, J. Noncommutative Minimal Surfaces. Lett Math Phys 106, 1109–1129 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-016-0861-7

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