Minimal immersed manifold
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This article defines a property that makes sense for a Riemannian metric over a differential manifold
This is the property of the following curvature being everywhere zero: Mean curvature
Definition
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A Riemannian manifold (viz a differential manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric) is termed a minimal manifold if the mean curvature of the manifold is zero at all points. This is a generalization to the manifold setting of the notion of a minimal surface.
