Orientador: Francesco Mercuri / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Intituto de Matematica, Estatistica e Computação Cientifica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T13:33:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Min_LienKuan_M.pdf: 1157875 bytes, checksum: 65f63453a02a7c1365c0a9b3524a1602 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O teorema de Bernstein é um marco importante na teoria das superfícies mínimas. Nesta dissertação apresentaremos três demonstrações deste teorema, cada uma levando a generalizações em diferentes direções / Abstract: The Bernstein's theorem is an important landmark in the theory of the minimal surfaces. In this dissertation we will present three demonstrations of this theorem, each one leading to generalizations in different directions / Mestrado / Geometria Diferencial / Mestre em Matemática

We develop a general method to construct subsets of complete Riemannian manifolds that cannot contain images of non-constant harmonic maps from compact manifolds. We apply our method to the special case where the harmonic map is the Gauss map of a minimal submanifold and the complete manifold is a Grassmannian. With the help of a result by Allard [Allard, W. K. (1972). On the first variation of a varifold. Annals of mathematics, 417-491.], we can study the graph case and have an approach to prove Bernstein-type theorems. This enables us to extend Moser’s Bernstein theorem [Moser, J. (1961). On Harnack's theorem for elliptic differential equations. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 14(3), 577-591.] to codimension two, i.e., a minimal p-submanifold in $R^{p+2}$, which is the graph of a smooth function defined on the entire $R^p$ with bounded slope, must be a p-plane.