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[HKS] L. Hsu, R. Kusner, and J. Sullivan, "Minimizing the squared mean curvature integral for surfaces in space forms," Experimental Mathematics 1 (1991) 191-208.

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[KS][KS]} R. Kusner and J. M. Sullivan, "Comparing the Weaire-Phelan Equal-Volume Foam to Kelvin's Foam", Forma (The Society for Science on Form, Japan) ed. R. Takaki and D. Weaire, KTK Scientific Publishers. As book by Taylor and Francis Ltd (1996).

[KS2]} R. Kusner and J. M. Sullivan, "Mobius Energies for Knots and Links, Surfaces and Submanifolds" in Geometric Topology, Proceedings of the Georgia International Topology Conference, August 1993, ed. W. Kazez, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 2, part 1 (1997) 570--604.

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[SG] G. Strang, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Academic Press.

[SJ]J. M. Sullivan, "Sphere Packings Give an Explicit Bound for the Besicovitch Covering Theorem", J. Geometric Analysis 4 (1993) 219-231.

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[T2] J. E. Taylor, "Constructing crystalline minimal surfaces," Seminar on Minimal Submanifolds, E. Bombieri, ed., Annals of Math. Studies 105 (1983), 271-288.

[T3] J. E. Taylor, "Constructions and conjectures in crystalline nondifferentiable geometry," Proceedings of the Conference in Differential Geometry, Rio de Janiero, 1988, Pittman Publishing Ltd.

[Te] J. Tegart, "Three-dimensional fluid interfaces in cylindrical containers," AIAA paper AIAA-91-2174, 27th Joint Propulsion Conference, Sacramento, CA, June 1991.

[TW] W. Thompson (Lord Kelvin), "On the division of space with minimum partitional area," Acta Math. 11(1887), 121-134.

[U] A. Underwood, "Constructing barriers to minimal surfaces from polyhedral data," Ph.D. thesis, Princeton, 1993.

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[WP] D. Weaire and R. Phelan, "A counter-example to Kelvin's conjecture on minimal surfaces", Phil. Mag. Letters 69 (1994), 107-110.