Relativistic minimal surfaces

Jens Hoppe, Hermann Nicolai
1987 Physics Letters B  
We find classical solutions to the equations of motion of an M-dimensional surface moving in a higher-dimensional embedding space-time for arbitrary M. In the case of closed membranes, solutions exist for any topological type (genus).
doi:10.1016/0370-2693(87)90800-8 fatcat:ihknlmd42jdwnja3qlxtiohy5u