Preprint
Inserted: 20 feb 2024
Last Updated: 26 feb 2024
Year: 2024
Abstract:
Given any $\Gamma=\gamma(\mathbb{S}^1)\subset\mathbb{R}^2$, image of a Lipschitz curve $\gamma:\mathbb{S}^1\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$, not necessarily injective, we provide an explicit formula for computing the value of \[ \mathcal{A}(\gamma):=\inf\left\{ \int_{B_1(0)} \mathrm{abs}(\mathrm{det}(\nabla u)) \mathrm{d} x \ : \ u=\gamma \text{ on }\mathbb{S}^1\right\}, \] where the infimum is evaluated among all Lipschitz maps $u:B_1(0)\rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2$ having boundary datum $\gamma$. This coincides with the area of a minimal disk spanning $\Gamma$, i.e., a solution of the Plateau problem of disk type for the oriented contour $\Gamma$. The novelty of the results relies in the fact that we do not assume the curve $\gamma$ to be injective and our formula allows for any kind of self-intersections
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