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The study finds conditions for area-minimizing cones over submanifolds.

Associated with isoparametric foliations of unit spheres, there are two classes of minimal surfaces $-$ minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces and focal submanifolds. By virtue of their rich structures, we find new series of minimizing cones. They are cones over focal submanifolds and cones over suitable products among th…

This paper proves area-minimizing cones over products of Grassmannian manifolds.

Lower bounds on cone density for nontrivial complements in low dimensions.

In this paper we study the area minimizing problem in some kinds of conformal cones. This concept is a generalization of the cones in Eulcidean spaces and the cylinders in product manifolds. We define a non-closed-minimal (NCM) condition for bounded domains. Under this assumption and other necessary conditions we estab…

Constructs minimal capillary cones with specific symmetry and proves their existence and uniqueness.

Cone structures over minimal products can't be calibrated smoothly.

Unique minimal surfaces near quadratic cones are identified.

Extends isoparametric foliations and area-minimizing cones in product manifolds.

Minimal hypersurfaces with cylindrical tangent cones constructed and analyzed.

Study area minimizing currents in conformal cones, solving Dirichlet problems.

Study finds volume minimization principle for conical Calabi-Yau structures on horospherical cones.

Lightlike hypersurfaces in cone structures minimize time.

It has been 40 years since Lawson and Osserman introduced the three minimal cones associated with Dirichlet problems in their 1977 Acta paper [LO77]. The first cone was shown area-minimizing by Harvey and Lawson in the celebrated paper [HL82]. In this paper, we confirm that the other two are also area-minimizing. In fa…

Unified rigidity theorem for Plateau surfaces in $\mathbb{B}^n$.

We prove the existence of the analog of Lawson's minimal cones for a notion of nonlocal minimal surface introduced by Caffarelli, Roquejoffre and Savin, and establish their stability/instability in low dimensions. In particular we find that there are nonlocal stable minimal cones in dimension 7, in contrast with the ca…

In this paper, we study self-expanding solutions for mean curvature flows and their relationship to minimal cones in Euclidean space. In [18], Ilmanen proved the existence of self-expanding hypersurfaces with prescribed tangent cones at infinity. If the cone is $C^{3,α}$-regular and mean convex (but not area-minimizing…

Hardt-Simon proved that every area-minimizing hypercone $\mathbf{C}$ having only an isolated singularity fits into a foliation of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ by smooth, area-minimizing hypersurfaces asymptotic to $\mathbf{C}$. In this paper we prove that if a stationary $n$-varifold $M$ in the unit ball $B_1 \subset \mathbb{R}^…

Study on minimizing singular capillary cones with stability and instability results.

Our goal is to generalize the Choe-Hoppe helicoid and Clifford cones in Euclidean space. By sweeping out $L$ indpendent Clifford cones in ${\mathbb{R}}^{2N+2}$ via the multi-screw motion, we construct minimal submanifolds in ${\mathbb{R}}^{L(2N+2)+1}$. Also, we sweep out the $L$-rays Clifford cone (introduced in Sectio…

Paper constructs flows converging to cones and foliations.

We construct two infinite families of algebraic minimal cones in $R^{n}$. The first family consists of minimal cubics given explicitly in terms of the Clifford systems. We show that the classes of congruent minimal cubics are in one to one correspondence with those of geometrically equivalent Clifford systems. As a byp…

Study proves minimality of certain hyperplane intersections in wide cones.

Proof shows cones minimize certain geometric functionals.

We prove the existence of a minimal diffeomorphism isotopic to the identity between two hyperbolic cone surfaces $(Σ,g_1)$ and $(Σ,g_2)$ when the cone angles of $g_1$ and $g_2$ are different and smaller than $π$. When the cone angles of $g_1$ are strictly smaller than the ones of $g_2$, this minimal diffeomorphism is u…

In this paper, by constructing area-nonincreasing retractions, we prove area-minimizing properties of some cones over minimal embeddings of R-spaces.

We show that directed minimal cones in (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space which have at most one singularity are - besides the trivial cases: empty set, whole space - half spaces. Using blow-up techniques, this result can be used to get C^{1,lambda}-regularity for the measure-theoretic boundary of almost minimal Cacciop…

Paper proves rigidity and index of Y-cones in unit ball.

In this paper, we prove that, up to similarity, there are only two minimal hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+2}$ that are asymptotic to a Simons cone, i.e. the minimal cone over the minimal hypersurface $\sqrt{\frac pn}\mathbb{S}^p\times \sqrt{\frac{n-p}n} \mathbb{S}^{n-p}$ of $\mathbb{S}^{n+1}$

We show that every area-minimizing hypercone and every oriented Lawlor cone in [Law91] can be realized as a tangent cone at a point of some homologically area-minimizing singular compact submanifold. In particular this generalizes the result of N. Smale [Sma99].

Unique cylindrical tangent cone for Simons' hypersurface found.

New cones in 4D space found with minimal mass.

Minimal surfaces in spheres constructed from symmetry reductions of ODEs.

This is a very brief report on recent developments on the Dirichlet problem for the minimal surface system and minimal cones in Euclidean spaces. We shall mainly focus on two directions: (1) Further systematic developments after Lawson-Osserman's paper \cite{l-o} on the Dirichlet problem for minimal graphs of high codi…

Study harmonic functions on submanifolds and their cones.

This paper solves minimal surface equations near Hardt-Simon foliations.

Uniqueness proven for cylindrical tangent cones in high dimensions.

We prove that there are no minimal hypersurfaces properly immersed in any region of the Euclidean space bounded by unstable minimal cones. We also prove the analogous result for $r$-minimal hypersurfaces.

Construct locally minimizing $(1,2)$-clusters with prescribed asymptotic geometry.

Extends Smale's principle to produce minimal graphs with singularities.

Observing a linear superposition principle, a family of new minimal hypersurfaces in Euclidean space is found, as well as that linear combinations of generalized helicoids induce new algebraic minimal cones of arbitrarily high degree.

This paper proves area-minimizing cones over Grassmannian manifolds.

The study shows that certain metrics on spheres prevent stable tangent cones for area-minimizing boundaries.

We use elementary methods to construct a minimal lamination of the interior of a positive cone in R3.

Study proves uniqueness of tangent cones for area-minimizing currents in higher codimensions.

We consider $2$-dimensional integer rectifiable currents which are almost area minimizing and show that their tangent cones are everywhere unique. Our argument unifies a few uniqueness theorems of the same flavor, which are all obtained by a suitable modification of White's original theorem for area minimizing currents…

We prove a new logarithmic epiperimetric inequality for multiplicity-one stationary cones with isolated singularity by flowing in the radial direction any given trace along appropriately chosen directions. In contrast to previous epiperimetric inequalities for minimal surfaces (e.g. those of Reifenberg, Taylor and Whit…

Study shows unique tangent cones for area-minimizing currents at boundary points.