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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