Lots of well known minimal surfaces aren't stable as soap films - for instance this portion of a helicoid lasts only a second before flipping through to a smaller area configuration on the same boundary.pic.twitter.com/BwNOZIxlYx
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actually i also wondered what would happen for soap films in non simply connected manifolds
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For the helicoid I could loop the space in 1 dir, but it would still be infinite in the other 2. What would be some good 3-manifolds to try?
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