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HindawiPublishingCorporation InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences Volume2012,ArticleID724268,9pages doi:10.1155/2012/724268 ResearchArticle ConvexCombinations ofMinimalGraphs MichaelDorff, RyanViertel, andMagdalenaWo?oszkiewicz 1 1 2 1Department ofMathematics, BrighamYoungUniversity,Provo,UT84602,USA 2Department ofMathematics, MariaCurie-Sklodowska University,20-031Lublin,Poland Correspondence shouldbeaddressedtoMichaelDor?,mdor?@ Received11May2012;Accepted 14July2012 Academic Editor:IlyaM.Spitkovsky Copyright q2012MichaelDor?etal.Thisisanopenaccessarticledistributed undertheCreative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,distribution, andreproduction in anymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. Givenacollection ofminimalgraphs,M1,M2,...,Mn,withisothermal parametrizations interms oftheGaussmapandheightdi?erential,wegivesu?cientconditionsonM1,M2,...,Mnsothata convexcombination ofthemwillbeaminimalgraph.Wewillthenprovidetwoexamples,takinga convexcombination ofScherk’sdoublyperiodicsurfacewiththecatenoidandEnneper’s surface, respectively. 1.Introduction ConsiderasurfaceMinR3. De?nition1.1. Thenormalcurvatureatapointp∈Minthewdirectionis kwα·n, 1.1 where n is the unit normal at p, w is a tangent vector of M at p, and α is an arclength parametrizationofthecurvecreatedbytheintersectionofMwiththetheplanecontaining wandn. De?nition1.2. AminimalsurfaceisasurfaceMwithmeancurvature H k1 k2 0, 1.2 2 atvaluesall pointsatp. p ∈ M, where k1 and k2 are the maximum and minimum normal curvature  2 InternationalJournalofMathematicsandMathematicalSciences ThestandardtoolforrepresentingminimalsurfacesistheWeierstrassrepresentation asthefollowingtheoremdemonstrates. Theorem 1.3 Weierstrass representation. Every regular minimal surface in R3 has a local isothermalparametricrepresentationofthefollowingform:      Xz  Re ?1zdz,Re ?2zdz,Re ?3