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In this survey I would like to report on some recent results concerning the singular minimal surface equation
for functions u : Ω → ℝ, Ω ⊂ ℝn a domain, or Ω = ℝn. Here α denotes some real number.
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Dierkes, U. (2003). Singular Minimal Surfaces. In: Hildebrandt, S., Karcher, H. (eds) Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55627-2_11
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