Another View on the Shape Equation for Strings

Abstract

The question how an $M$-dimensional extended object must be shaped so that a rigid motion gives an $M$-brane solution ($M+1$ dimensional timelike zero mean curvature surface) in $M+2$ dimensional Minkowski space is discussed for closed strings

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• On smoothness of timelike maximal cylinders in three dimensional vacuum spacetimes
• U(1) invariant Membranes and Singularities
• Lectures on Minimal Surfaces