Abstract for the talk at 16.04.2013 (15:15 h)

Oberseminar ANALYSIS - PROBABILITY

Matteo Novaga (Università di Pisa)
Timelike extremal surfaces in the Minkowski space

I will discuss some properties of timelike extremal surfaces in the flat Minkowski space. I will also present a notion of weak solution, in the spirit of the varifold theory in the Euclidean space.