Proves unique continuation for area minimizing currents.
problem Ensuring area minimizing currents match minimal surfaces.
method Analyzes infinite order contact between currents and minimal surfaces.
result Currents and minimal surfaces coincide in a neighborhood.
Study improves boundary smoothness for area-minimizing currents with complex boundaries.
problem Boundary regularity for area-minimizing currents with arbitrary multiplicity.
method Generalization of Allard's boundary regularity theorem.
result Derivation of structural consequences from the generalized theorem.
By Federer and Fleming there exist at least one mass-minimizing normal current in every real-valued homology class of a Riemannian manifold. However the regularity of the mass-minimizing currents and their distributions may generally be quite complicated. In this paper we shall study how to construct nice metrics so th…
Study on high-codimensional minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space.
problem Understanding high-codimensional minimal surfaces in hyperbolic space.
method Investigating asymptotic behavior and boundary regularity of area-minimizing currents.
result Established boundary regularity results for high-codimensional minimal surfaces near their asymptotic boundaries.
New examples show flat singular sets can be arbitrarily complex.
problem Understanding the structure of singular sets in almost-minimizing currents.
method Construction of specific examples of area almost-minimizing currents.
result Flat singular sets can contain any closed empty interior subset of a plane.
This is the last of a series of three papers in which we give a new, shorter proof of a slightly improved version of Almgren's partial regularity of area minimizing currents in Riemannian manifolds. Here we perform a blow-up analysis deducing the regularity of area minimizing currents from that of Dir-minimizing multip…
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…
The paper proves conditions for the Abundance conjecture in minimal projective klt pairs.
problem Proving the Abundance conjecture for minimal klt pairs with non-zero canonical bundle.
method Analyzing asymptotic behavior of multiplier ideals and properties of supercanonical currents.
result Supercanonical currents are central to proving the Abundance conjecture.
Study on flat singularities of area-minimizing currents in codimension one.
problem Understanding flat singularities of area-minimizing currents in codimension one.
method Analyzing the structure of two-dimensional mod(q) area-minimizing currents near flat singularities.
result Currents are C1,α-perturbations of radially homogeneous special multiple-valued functions. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of a 2-dimensional integral current which is almost minimizing in a suitable sense at a singular point. Our analysis is the second half of an argument which shows the discreteness of the singular set for the following three classes of 2-dimensional currents: area minimizing in Rie…
The paper proves existence and partial regularity for Legendrian area-minimizing currents.
problem Existence and partial regularity of Legendrian area-minimizing currents.
method Local minimization and application to the Legendrian Plateau problem.
result Existence and partial regularity of solutions to the Legendrian Plateau problem.
Proves interior singular set dimension for area-minimizing currents in smooth submanifolds.
problem Interior singular set dimension of area-minimizing currents.
method Analyzes area-minimizing currents within a C2,α-submanifold. result Interior singular set dimension cannot exceed m−2. The study bounds Hausdorff measure of flat singular points in area-minimizing currents.
problem Bounding Hausdorff measure of flat singular points in area-minimizing currents.
method Proving locally finite (m−2)-dimensional Hausdorff measure and Minkowski content bounds. result The set of flat singular points has locally finite (m−2)-dimensional Hausdorff measure. We construct Lipschitz Q-valued functions which approximate carefully integral currents when their cylindrical excess is small and they are almost minimizing in a suitable sense. This result is used in two subsequent works to prove the discreteness of the singular set for the following three classes of 2-dimensiona…
Constructs area-minimizing submanifolds with fractal singularities.
problem Area-minimizing submanifolds with fractal singular sets.
method Integral currents, mod v currents, stable stationary varifolds.
result Sharp dimensionwise solution to Almgren's conjecture.
We construct a branched center manifold in a neighborhood of a singular point of a 2-dimensional integral current which is almost minimizing in a suitable sense. Our construction is the first half of an argument which shows the discreteness of the singular set for the following three classes of 2-dimensional curren…
The paper proves convex bodies are minimal fillings and have Lipschitz-volume rigidity.
problem Finding minimal fillings of convex bodies.
method Analyzing integral current spaces and proving rigidity properties.
result Convex bodies are the unique minimal fillings of their boundary metrics among integral current spaces and enjoy Lipschitz-volume rigidity.
New method improves smoothness of minimizing currents near singular points.
problem Improving smoothness of minimizing currents near singular points.
method New method to estimate the full singular set of the foliation by minimizers and proof of superlinear decay of closeness.
result Generic smoothness of minimizers improved to n−9−εn for n≥11. Study proves uniqueness of tangent cones for area-minimizing currents in higher codimensions.
problem Understanding the fine structure of singular points in area-minimizing currents.
method Analysis of tangent cones and application of previous work.
result Uniqueness of tangent cones at Hm−2-a.e. points in the support of area-minimizing currents. Upper bound on singular set dimension for area-minimizing currents.
problem Bounding the dimension of singular points in area-minimizing currents.
method Using upper Minkowski dimension and properties of blow-up scales.
result Upper Minkowski bound of m−2 for the interior singular set. This a survey on a series of recent papers in collaboration with Emanuele Spadaro on the regularity of area-minimizing currents in codimension higher than 1.
New results show area-minimizing surfaces have fewer singularities than expected.
problem Understanding the singularities of area-minimizing surfaces in homology classes.
method Sharp regularity theorem for area-minimizing currents in finite coefficient homology.
result For large v, area-minimizing mod v currents are integral currents with a singular set of codimension at least 2. Study area minimizing currents in conformal cones, solving Dirichlet problems.
problem Area minimizing currents in conformal cones.
method Minimizing problem of area functionals, Dirichlet problem of minimal surface equations.
result Existence and uniqueness of area minimizing currents in a wide class of conformal manifolds.
A 3D area-minimizing current in R^5 has a 2-fold essential singularity.
problem Understanding singularities in area-minimizing currents.
method Construction of a specific current with prescribed boundary properties.
result The boundary regularity theory is dimensionally sharp.
It is well known that in compact local Lipschitz neighborhood retracts in Euclidean space flat convergence for integer rectifiable currents amounts just to weak convergence. In the present paper we extend this result to integral currents in complete metric spaces admitting a local cone type inequality. These include in…
This is the second paper of a series of three on the regularity of higher codimension area minimizing integral currents. Here we perform the second main step in the analysis of the singularities, namely the construction of a center manifold, i.e. an approximate average of the sheets of an almost flat area minimizing cu…
Study on singularities in area-minimizing currents, proving unique tangent cones and rectifiability.
problem Understanding singularities in area-minimizing currents.
method Fine excess decay theorems and almost monotonicity of a frequency function.
result Unique tangent cones and countably (m−2)-rectifiable singular set. Study on flat singular points of area-minimizing currents, defining a singularity degree.
problem Understanding the structure of singular points in area-minimizing integral currents.
method Analysis of vanishing sequences of scales around a singular point, defining a singularity degree.
result The singularity degree is independent of the chosen vanishing sequence and has interesting properties.
A projection maps geodesic currents to Teichmüller space.
problem Mapping geodesic currents to Teichmüller space.
method Equivariant, length-minimizing projection from filling currents to Teichmüller space.
result The projection is well-behaved and maps geodesic currents to Teichmüller space.
Rectifies flat singular points for area-minimizing currents.
problem Understanding singularities of area-minimizing currents.
method Analyzes countably (m−2)-rectifiable singular points with flat tangent cones. result The set of singular density-Q points is countably (m−2)-rectifiable and has finite upper Minkowski content. In a series of papers, including the present one, we give a new, shorter proof of Almgren's partial regularity theorem for area minimizing currents in a Riemannian manifold, with a slight improvement on the regularity assumption for the latter. This note establishes a new a priori estimate on the excess measure of an a…
Study on sphere-valued maps, proving energy convergence and current limits.
problem Understanding the behavior of sphere-valued Sobolev maps as their energy grows.
method Proving Gamma-convergence of p-energies to the mass of an integral current. result Jacobian convergence to an area-minimizing current in a cobordism class.
Geodesic currents on surfaces have comparable metrics in thick regions.
problem Comparing the geometry of geodesic currents and their minimizing metrics.
method Analyzing the space of geodesic currents on surfaces and comparing metrics on thick components.
result Geometries of geodesic currents and their minimizing metrics are comparable in thick regions.
Unique solutions found for Plateau problems in smooth and continuous calibrations.
problem Finding unique solutions to the Plateau problem for specific types of currents.
method Boundary regularity theory for area-minimizing currents and unique continuation argument.
result Every compactly supported smoothly or continuously calibrated integral current is the unique solution to the Plateau problem for its boundary data.
New limits of minimal surface systems have surprising large interior parts.
problem Minimal surface system limits with large interior vertical and non-minimal portions.
method Construction of limits with smallest possible dimension and codimension.
result Limits of minimal surface systems can have surprising large interior parts.
Study area minimizing currents in Riemannian manifolds, proving unique structure and decay.
problem Area minimizing currents in Riemannian manifolds with moduli.
method Structural results and uniqueness theorem, inspired by Simon's techniques.
result Uniqueness and decay towards tangent cones for area minimizing currents.
Perturbs area-minimizing hypersurfaces to reduce singular set's dimension.
problem Reduces the dimension of the singular set of area-minimizing hypersurfaces.
method Perturbs a smooth hypersurface to minimize the Minkowski dimension of the singular set.
result The singular set of the perturbed minimizing current has Minkowski dimension less than n-9.
We prove that tangent cones at singular boundary points of a two-dimensional current almost area minimizing are unique. Following the ideas exposed by White in [8], the result is achieved by combining a suitable epiperimetric inequality and an almost-monotonicity formula for the mass at boundary points.
In this paper, we consider multi-valued graphs with a prescribed real analytic interface that minimize the Dirichlet energy. Such objects arise as a linearized model of area minimizing currents with real analytic boundaries and our main result is that their singular set is discrete in 2 dimensions. This confirms (and p…
Rectifies flat singular points of area-minimizing currents with singularity degree > 1.
problem Rectifying flat singular points of area-minimizing currents with singularity degree > 1.
method Subdividing singular points based on singularity degree and proving rectifiability of points with singularity degree > 1.
result The set of points with singularity degree > 1 is (m-2)-rectifiable.
We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of C1,α submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the current has a tangent cone supported in a hyperplane with constant orientation vector; t…
We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of C1,α submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the current has a tangent cone supported in a hyperplane with constant orientation vector; t…
Solves a problem posed by Brezis and Mironescu about least mass of area-minimizing currents.
problem Least mass of area-minimizing currents with a given boundary.
method Demonstrates the value of the least mass and compares it to the infimum of areas of smoothly immersed submanifolds.
result The least mass of area-minimizing currents equals the infimum of areas of smoothly immersed submanifolds with the same boundary.
The main result of this paper is a characterization of the minimal surface hull of a compact set K in R3 by sequences of conformal minimal discs whose boundaries converge to K in the measure theoretic sense, and also by 2-dimensional minimal currents which are limits of Green currents supported by conf…
Study shows unique tangent cones for area-minimizing currents at boundary points.
problem Uniqueness of tangent cones for area-minimizing currents with arbitrary multiplicity.
method Analysis of area minimizing currents in C2 submanifolds with arbitrary boundary multiplicity. result Tangent cones are unique at density Q/2 boundary points. Analyzes singularities of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo p, completing the structure analysis.
problem Analyzing singularities of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo p.
method Combining epiperimetric inequalities, analysis of homogeneous minimizers, and blow-up procedures.
result Completes the structure analysis of area minimizing hypersurfaces modulo p for all cases.
In analogy with Almgren's Theorem for area minimizing currents of general dimension and codimension, we prove that an m-dimensional semicalibrated current in a (n+m)-dimensional C3,ε0 manifold, semicalibrated by a C2,ε0 m-form, has singular set of Hausdorff dimension at most m−2.
Let B be a fiber bundle with compact fiber F over a compact Riemannian n-manifold M. There is a natural Riemannian metric on the total space B consistent with the metric on M. With respect to that metric, the volume of a rectifiable section s:M--> B is the mass of the image s(M) as a rectifiable n-current in B. Theorem…