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The existence of a body of minimal resistance with prescribed volume is proved in the class of profiles which satisfy a two sided bound on the mean curvature

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M. Belloni, A. Wagner. “Newton's Problem of Minimal Resistance in the Class of Bodies with Prescribed Volume.” Journal of Convex Analysis 10 (2003), No. 2, 491–500. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca1030

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