STM eT MS EL SELACe) Anthony Tromba A Theory of Branched Minimal Surfaces Q Springera You have either reached 2 page thts unevalale fer vowing or reached your ievina tit for his book.Contents 1 Introduction . 4 4 4 - ot 2 Higher Order Derivatives of Dirichlet’s Energy 7 2.1 First Five Variations of Dirichlet’s Integral and Forced Jacobi Fields . . 7 3 Very Special Case; The Theorem for n +1 Even and m+1Odd... 37 3.1 The Strategy of the Proof. . ‘ < : . 37 4 The First Main Theorem; Non-exceptional Branch Points; The Non-vanishing of the L™ Derivative of Dirichlet’s Energy . 47 5 The Second Main Theorem: Exceptional Branch Points; The Conditionk >I... , , : asa . 09 6 — Exceptional Branch Points Without the Condition k >... a) 7 New Brief Proofs of the Gulliver-Osserman-Royden Theorem. . . . 105 7.1 The First Proof F ‘4 5 ‘ sna ews 2 105 7.2. Tomi’s Proof of the Gulliver-Osserman-Royden Theorem... . . 111 8 Boundary Branch Points ; . ‘ : . wT 9 Scholia. . . : : : : . . ees 169 Appendix Non-exceptional Branch Points; The Vanishing of the L" Derivative, L Even : .177 References . . . : » . 189