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The material in the author’s paper [1] in the earlier pages of this volume suggests several problems and problem areas, including the following:

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  1. E. F. Beckenbach, The counterspherical representation of a minimal surface, Proceedings of the first international conference on general inequalities, Oberwolfach, 1976, pp. 277–299,Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Stuttgart, 1977.

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Beckenbach, E.F. (1978). Some Problems in the Theory of Surfaces. In: Beckenbach, E.F. (eds) General Inequalities 1 / Allgemeine Ungleichungen 1. International Series of Numerical Mathematics / Internationale Schriftenreihe zur Numerischen Mathematik / Série Internationale d’Analyse Numérique, vol 41. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5563-1_41

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