A Bernstein type theorem for minimal volume preserving maps
Authors:
Lei Ni
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
Abstract:
We show that any minimal volume preserving map from the Euclidean plane into itself is a linear diffeomorphism. We derive this from a similar result on minimal diffeomorphisms. We also show that the classical Bernstein theorem on minimal graphs is a corollary of our result.