Minimal submanifold
= Minimal submanifold
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A minimal submanifold has vanishing <mean curvature> vector, equivalently zero first variation of volume for compactly supported normal variations. A <minimal surface> is its two-dimensional case. A <calibrated submanifold> satisfies the stronger property of minimizing volume in its relative homology class.
// Target: general-relativity.bigb