Thread-wire surfaces
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2006.
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| author | Stephens, Benjamin K. (Benjamin Keith) |
| author2 | David S. Jerison. |
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| description | Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2006. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/345502019-04-12T09:19:03Z Thread-wire surfaces Stephens, Benjamin K. (Benjamin Keith) David S. Jerison. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mathematics. Mathematics. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and Index. This thesis studies surfaces which minimize area, subject to a fixed boundary and to a free boundary with length constraint. Based on physical experiments, I make two conjectures. First, I conjecture that minimizers supported on generic wires have finitely many surface components. I approach this conjecture by proving that surface components of near-wire minimizers are Lipschitz graphs in wire Frenet coordinates, and appear near maxima of wire curvature. Second, I conjecture and prove that surface components of near-wire minimizers are C1 at corners where the thread touches the wire interior. Moreover, the limit of the surface normal field is the Frenet binormal of the wire at the corner point. This shows local wire geometry dominates global wire geometry in influencing the surface corner. Third, I show that these two conjectures are related: assuming additional regularity up to the corner, the finiteness conjecture follows. by Benjamin K. Stephens. Ph.D. 2006-11-07T12:54:38Z 2006-11-07T12:54:38Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34550 71015962 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 190 p. 13231503 bytes 13230927 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mathematics. Stephens, Benjamin K. (Benjamin Keith) Thread-wire surfaces |
| title | Thread-wire surfaces |
| title_full | Thread-wire surfaces |
| title_fullStr | Thread-wire surfaces |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thread-wire surfaces |
| title_short | Thread-wire surfaces |
| title_sort | thread wire surfaces |
| topic | Mathematics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34550 |
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