Pointing out a crucial relation with caustics of the eikonal equation we discuss the singularity formation of 2-dimensional surfaces that sweep out 3-manifolds of zero mean curvature in R3,1.
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author = {J. Eggers and J. Hoppe and M. Hynek and N. Suramlishvili},
title = {Singularities of relativistic membranes},
journal = {Geometric Flows},
volume = {1},
year = {2015},
language = {en},
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J. Eggers; J. Hoppe; M. Hynek; N. Suramlishvili. Singularities of relativistic membranes. Geometric Flows, Tome 1 (2015) . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_geofl-2015-0003/
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