Boundary Regularity for Minimal Graphs of Higher Codimensions

Abstract

In this paper, the authors derive Hölder gradient estimates for graphic functions of minimal graphs of arbitrary codimensions over bounded open sets of Euclidean space under some suitable conditions.

Keywords

Boundary regularity / Minimal graphs / Higher condimension / Bernstein type theorem

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