Variational problems in topology. The geometry of length, area and volume. Transl. from the Russian. (English) Zbl 0716.53004
New York etc.: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. x, 225 p. $ 120.00 (1990).
For a review of the Russian original (1984), cf. Zbl 0679.49001.
MSC:
| 53-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry |
| 57-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes |
| 49-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to calculus of variations and optimal control |
| 49Qxx | Manifolds and measure-geometric topics |
| 58-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to global analysis |
| 53C42 | Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) |
| 53A10 | Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature |
| 58Exx | Variational problems in infinite-dimensional spaces |
