Regularity of area-minimizing surfaces in 3D polytopes and of invariant hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb R^n\) (Q2577092)

In a convex polytope \(P^3\) in \(\mathbb R^4\), an area-minimizing surface avoids the vertices of \(P\) and crosses the edges orthogonally. In a smooth Riemannian manifold \(M\), with a group of isometries \(G\), an area-minimizing \(G\)-invariant oriented hypersurface is smooth except for a singular set in high dimensions. Already in 3D, an area-minimizing \(G\)-invariant unoriented surface can have certain singularities such as three orthogonal sheets meeting at a point. The author also considers other categories of surfaces such as rectifiable currents modulo \(\nu\) and soap films.