Saddle surfaces

Abstract

The notion of a saddle surface is well known in Euclidean space. In this thesis, the idea of a saddle surface is extended to geodesically connected metric spaces. It is proved that every energy minimizing surface in a nonpositively curved Aleksandrov’s space is a saddle surface. Further, it is proved that the notion of a saddle surface is well defined for a general Frechet surface and the space of saddle surfaces is complete in the Frechet distance. It is also proved a compactness theorem for saddle surfaces in metric spaces of curvature bounded from above in the sense of A.D.Aleksandrov. In spaces of constant curvature it is obtained a stronger result based on an isoperimetric inequality for a saddle surface. Finally, it is proved that a saddle surface in a three-dimensional space of nonzero constant curvature k is a space of curvature not greater than k in the sense of A.D.Aleksandrov, which generalizes a classical theorem by S.Z.Shefel.

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DOI
10.12681/eadd/48744
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/48744
ND
48744
Alternative title
Σαγματοειδείς επιφάνειες
Author
Kalikakis, Dimitrios (Father's name: Emmanuel)
Date
2000
Degree Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Graduate College. Department of Mathematics
Committee members
Nikolaev Igor
Berg David
Alexander Stephanie
Bishop Richard
Goldberg Samuel
Discipline
Natural SciencesMathematics
Keywords
Saddle surfaces; Metric spaces of curvature bounded from above in the sense of A.D.Aleksandrov; Minimal surfaces; Frechet metric; Completeness; Isoperimetric inequality; Compactness theorem; Curvature of saddle surfaces in spaces of constant curvature
Country
United States
Language
English
Description
vii, 78 σ., fig., ch.
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