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rdf:langString Gerhard Huisken. Contracting convex hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds by their mean curvature. Invent. Math. 84 , no. 3, 463–480.

rdf:langString Enrico Giusti. Minimal surfaces and functions of bounded variation. Monographs in Mathematics, 80. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 1984. xii+240 pp.

rdf:langString Leon Simon. Lectures on geometric measure theory. Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Australian National University, 3. Australian National University, Centre for Mathematical Analysis, Canberra, 1983. vii+272 pp.

rdf:langString Gerhard Huisken. Flow by mean curvature of convex surfaces into spheres. J. Differential Geom. 20 , no. 1, 237–266.

rdf:langString Tobias Holck Colding and William P. Minicozzi, II. A course in minimal surfaces. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 121. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2011. xii+313 pp.

rdf:langString James Simons. Minimal varieties in Riemannian manifolds. Ann. of Math. 88 , 62–105.

rdf:langString S.S. Chern, M. do Carmo, and S. Kobayashi. Minimal submanifolds of a sphere with second fundamental form of constant length. Functional Analysis and Related Fields , 59–75. Proceedings of a Conference in honor of Professor Marshall Stone, held at the University of Chicago, May 1968. Springer, New York. Edited by Felix E. Browder.

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rdf:langString In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Simons formula (also known as the Simons identity, and in some variants as the Simons inequality) is a fundamental equation in the study of minimal submanifolds. It was discovered by James Simons in 1968. It can be viewed as a formula for the Laplacian of the second fundamental form of a Riemannian submanifold. It is often quoted and used in the less precise form of a formula or inequality for the Laplacian of the length of the second fundamental form. In the case of a hypersurface M of Euclidean space, the formula asserts that where, relative to a local choice of unit normal vector field, h is the second fundamental form, H is the mean curvature, and h2 is the symmetric 2-tensor on M given by h2ij = gpqhiphqj.This has the consequence that where A is the shape operator. In this setting, the derivation is particularly simple: the only tools involved are the Codazzi equation (equalities #2 and 4), the Gauss equation (equality #4), and the commutation identity for covariant differentiation (equality #3). The more general case of a hypersurface in a Riemannian manifold requires additional terms to do with the Riemann curvature tensor. In the even more general setting of arbitrary codimension, the formula involves a complicated polynomial in the second fundamental form.