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A global study of extremal surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Chaohao Gu

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Chaohao Gu Marcel Berger Robert L. Bryant

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Gu, C. (1987). A global study of extremal surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space. In: Gu, C., Berger, M., Bryant, R.L. (eds) Differential Geometry and Differential Equations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1255. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0077678

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