Talk
The Double Bubble Theorem
- Frank Morgan (Williams College + MPI MiS, Leipzig)
Abstract
The Double Bubble Theorem says that the familiar double soap bubble is the least-area way to enclose and separate two given volumes of air. I'll discuss the problem and recent proof (with Hutchings, Ritore', and Ros, Annals of Math., March 2002), including a new second variation formula, for singular surfaces.
