An upper bound on the growth of minimal graphs
Graphs of solutions to the minimal surface equation over simply connected domains with boundary values 0 can have at most exponential growth.
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Graphs of solutions to the minimal surface equation over simply connected domains with boundary values 0 can have at most exponential growth.
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We give the lower bound for the growth of the maximum value for a solution to the minimal surface equation with 0 boundary values over an unbounded simply connected domain.
Sharp bounds are given for solutions to the minimal surface equation with vanishing boundary values over domains containing sectors of opening bigger than pi.
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