Study shows area-minimizing submanifolds are mostly rough, not smooth.
problem Understanding the smoothness of area-minimizing submanifolds.
method Proved non-smoothness by contradiction and established Hausdorff dimension bounds.
result Area-minimizing submanifolds are not generically smooth, resolving a conjecture.
Smooth minimizers found for Willmore energy surfaces.
problem Finding minimizers for Willmore energy surfaces.
method Existence and smoothness established through axially symmetric surfaces with prescribed isoperimetric ratio.
result Existence and smoothness of minimizers proven.
Cone structures over minimal products can't be calibrated smoothly.
problem Calibrating cones over minimal products with smooth calibrations.
method Extending a key result from [Zha26], showing obstruction.
result Cone structures over minimal products cannot be calibrated by smooth calibrations.
Study shows not all smooth paths are optimal in certain geometric structures.
problem Existence of non-smooth sub-Riemannian minimizing geodesics.
method Constructed a C2 but not C3 length-minimizer example. result Found a real-analytic sub-Riemannian structure with non-smooth minimizers.
In this paper we investigate H-minimal graphs of lower regularity. We show that noncharactersitic C^1 H-minimal graphs whose components of the unit horizontal Gauss map are in W^{1,1} are ruled surfaces with C^2 seed curves. In a different direction, we investigate ways in which patches of C^1 H-minimal graphs can be g…
Minimal surfaces in 8D smooth and nondegenerate.
problem Generic regularity of minimal hypersurfaces in 8D.
method Analysis of C∞-generic metrics. result All minimal hypersurfaces are smooth and nondegenerate.
Proof shows smooth minimal hypersurfaces for perimeter-minimizing sets in low-dimensional Riemannian manifolds.
problem Finding sets of least perimeter in Riemannian manifolds.
method Short proof using de Giorgi and Miranda's tradition in flat space.
result Reduced boundary of least perimeter sets is a smooth minimal hypersurface in low dimensions.
Miyaoka-Yau inequality proven for smooth minimal models.
problem Proving the Miyaoka-Yau inequality for smooth minimal models.
method Existence of cscK metrics in a neighborhood of the canonical class.
result Miyaoka-Yau inequality holds for compact Kähler manifolds with nef canonical bundle.
Research on the least complex surface in certain 4D shapes.
problem Finding the simplest surface in specific four-dimensional shapes.
method Analyzing smooth four-manifolds to determine minimal genus.
result Results on the minimal genus for studied four-manifolds.
The study finds anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds with smooth boundaries.
problem Finding smooth anisotropic minimal surfaces in closed 3-manifolds.
method Min-max construction with elliptic integrands, uniform upper bound for density ratios.
result Obtains a smooth anisotropic minimal surface in a closed 3-manifold.
Smooth compactness theorem for elasticae, except straight segments.
problem Compactness of elasticae space.
method Smooth compactness theorem proof.
result Smooth stability results for minimizers.
We prove a reflection principle for minimal surfaces in smooth (non necessarily analytic) three manifolds and we give an explicit application when the ambient space is just a smooth manifold.
Smooth minimizing hypersurfaces in 11D are generic, with singularities in higher dimensions.
problem Finding smooth minimizing hypersurfaces in high dimensions.
method Analyzing the Plateau problem and area minimization in integral homology.
result Smooth minimizing hypersurfaces are generic in 11D, with singularities in higher dimensions.
Paper proves minimizing movements match smooth droplet flow in 3D.
problem Consistency of minimizing movements with smooth mean curvature flow.
method Proved minimizing movements coincide with smooth droplet flow.
result Minimizing movements and smooth mean curvature flow are consistent in 3D.
Let (Mn+1,g,e−fdμ) be a complete smooth metric measure space with 2≤n≤6 and Bakry-Émery Ricci curvature bounded below by a positive constant. We prove a smooth compactness theorem for the space of complete embedded f-minimal hypersurfaces in M with uniform upper bounds on f-index and weighted vo…
In this short note, exploits of constructions of F-structures coupled with technology developed by Cheeger-Gromov and Paternain-Petean are seen to yield a procedure to compute minimal entropy, minimal volume, Yamabe invariant and to study collapsing with bounded sectional curvature on inequivalent smooth st…
Generic smooth minimal hypersurfaces exist in 8D manifolds.
problem Existence of smooth minimal hypersurfaces in high-dimensional manifolds.
method Global perturbation argument and a novel geometric invariant.
result Generic metrics on 8D manifolds admit smooth minimal hypersurfaces.
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. In this paper we show that every area minimizing cone C^{n-1} in R^n can be approximated by entirely smooth area minimizing hypersurfaces. This extensively uses hyperbolic unfoldings of such hypersurfaces and the resulting potential theory for the Jacobi field operator. Applications include the splitting theorem in sca…
Smoothness of collapsed regions in soap films is proven, indicating wetted singularities.
problem Smoothness of collapsed regions in soap films.
method Study of generalized minimizers in capillarity model.
result Collapsed regions are smooth outside of dimensionally small singular sets.
Smooths out complex shapes into simpler forms.
problem Transforming complex shapes into simpler, smooth forms.
method Perturbing minimizing hypercones and viscosity mean convex cones into smooth, properly embedded hypersurfaces.
result Properly embedded smooth minimizing hypersurfaces and self-expanders are achieved.
LSAM optimizes deep learning training with improved efficiency.
problem Inefficiency in distributed large-batch training with Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM).
method Integrates SAM's adversarial steps with an asynchronous distributed sampling strategy.
result Higher final accuracy compared to data-parallel SAM.
Local minimizers are convex and close to Wulff shapes.
problem Finding local minimizers in anisotropic isoperimetric problems.
method Showed local minimizers are geodesically convex and small smooth perturbations of tangent Wulff shapes.
result Local minimizers are quantitatively close to Wulff shapes.
The compact-open topology is minimal on diffeomorphism and homeomorphism groups of most smooth manifolds.
problem The minimality of compact-open topology on diffeomorphism and homeomorphism groups.
method Analyzing the compact-open topology on diffeomorphism and homeomorphism groups of smooth manifolds.
result The compact-open topology is minimal on diffeomorphism and homeomorphism groups of most smooth manifolds.
We prove that Lipschitz intrinsic graphs in the Heisenberg groups Hn, with n>1, which are vanishing viscosity solutions of the minimal surface equation are smooth.
Study confirms conjecture about Kähler metrics on smooth minimal models.
problem Behavior of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on smooth minimal models.
method Analysis of metrics in a neighborhood of the canonical class.
result Convergence to singular Kähler Einstein metric in the canonical class.
We construct a Riemannian metric g on R4 (arbitrarily close to the euclidean one) and a smooth simple closed curve Γ⊂R4 such that the unique area minimizing surface spanned by Γ has infinite topology. Furthermore the metric is almost Kähler and the area minimizing surface is calibrated…
New approach to solving minimal surface system Dirichlet problem on smooth domains.
problem Solving Dirichlet problem for minimal surface system on smooth domains.
method Using mean curvature flow (MCF) with boundary conditions and non-negative Ricci curvature assumption.
result Existence of long-time mean curvature flow and existence result for exterior Dirichlet problem.
The paper studies singularities in discrete indefinite affine minimal surfaces.
problem Characterizing singularities in discrete indefinite affine minimal surfaces.
method Discretizing smooth curves and applying discrete Lelieuvre's formulas to study the resulting surfaces.
result The definition of singular edges and vertices in discrete asymptotic nets mirrors properties of smooth surfaces.
Suppose that N is a smooth manifold with a smooth Riemannian metric g0, and that Γ is a smooth submanifold of N. This paper proves that for a generic (in the sense of Baire category) smooth metric g conformal to g0, if F is any simple g-minimal immersion of a closed manifold into N, then F is transv…
The study extends calibrated geometry to smooth maps and finds energy bounds.
problem Finding energy bounds for smooth maps between Riemannian manifolds.
method Generalizing calibrated submanifolds to smooth maps and applying to energy functional.
result Lower bounds to the energy of smooth maps in homotopy classes.
The (global) Lipschitz smoothness condition is crucial in establishing the convergence theory for most optimization methods. Unfortunately, most machine learning and signal processing problems are not Lipschitz smooth. This motivates us to generalize the concept of Lipschitz smoothness condition to the relative smoothn…
The paper studies deformations of singular minimal hypersurfaces in dimensions 7 and above.
problem The behavior of singular minimal hypersurfaces in dimensions 7 and above.
method Analyzes the local behavior of minimal hypersurfaces under perturbations and convergence of families of hypersurfaces.
result Existence and smoothness of nearby minimal hypersurfaces under perturbations, uniqueness of homological minimization, and existence of Jacobi fields.
The minimal number of critical points is studied for smooth functions on closed manifolds.
problem Determining the minimal number of critical points for smooth functions on closed manifolds.
method Investigates cylindrical ball neighborhoods and exotic critical points, proving the conjecture for certain types of critical points.
result The minimal number of critical points is the same for smooth functions without exotic critical points on closed manifolds of dimension at least 6.
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…
Extends Newton's minimal resistance problem to Riemannian surfaces.
problem Minimal resistance on Riemannian surfaces.
method Derive resistance functional, analyze constrained minimization.
result Smooth extremals are loxodromes, global minimizers characterized.
Paper proves existence of area-minimizing submanifolds on almost any manifold with fractal singular sets.
problem Existence of area-minimizing submanifolds with fractal singular sets.
method Constructing and proving existence on almost any smooth manifold.
result Existence of area-minimizing submanifolds with fractal singular sets on almost any smooth manifold.
We generalize Newton-type methods for minimizing smooth functions to handle a sum of two convex functions: a smooth function and a nonsmooth function with a simple proximal mapping. We show that the resulting proximal Newton-type methods inherit the desirable convergence behavior of Newton-type methods for minimizing s…
This paper classifies minimal fillings of lens spaces.
problem Determining the smallest smooth negative-definite fillings of lens spaces.
method Classification of minimal fillings based on forbidden subgraphs in plumbing graphs.
result Classification of lens spaces with minimal negative-definite canonical plumbing.
Researchers prove existence of cscK metrics on smooth minimal models.
problem Existence of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics on compact Kähler manifolds.
method Direct proof showing existence on smooth minimal models and blowups.
result Compact Kähler manifolds with nef canonical bundle always admit cscK metrics.
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.
The problem of minimal distortion bending of smooth compact embedded connected Riemannian n-manifolds M and N without boundary is made precise by defining a deformation energy functional Φ on the set of diffeomorphisms $\diff(M,N)$. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equation for Φ and determine smooth minimizers o…
Given a sequence of properly embedded minimal surfaces in a 3-manifold with local bounds on area and genus, we prove subsequential convergence, smooth away from a discrete set, to a smooth embedded limit surface, possibly with multiplicity, and we analyze what happens when one blows up the surfaces near a point where…
We describe and partially solve a natural Yamabe-type problem on smooth metric measure spaces which interpolates between the Yamabe problem and the problem of finding minimizers for Perelman's ν-entropy. This problem reduces in all dimensions on Euclidean space to the characterization of the minimizers of the family …
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 study exotic smoothings of open 4-manifolds using the minimal genus function and its analog for end homology. While traditional techniques in open 4-manifold smoothing theory give no control of minimal genera, we make progress by using the adjunction inequality for Stein surfaces. Smoothings can be constructed with …
The paper constructs metrics on spheres with families of minimal hypersurfaces.
problem Finding Riemannian metrics on spheres with specific families of minimal hypersurfaces.
method Used Nash-Moser Inverse Function Theorem in the tame maps setting.
result Generalized Guillemin's theorem for Zoll families of minimal hypersurfaces.
Anisotropic min-max theory constructs stable minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds.
problem Constructing stable anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds.
method Anisotropic min-max theory, removable singularity theorems.
result Constructs stable anisotropic minimal surfaces in 3-manifolds without singularities.