Minimal graphs with micro-oscillations

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Abstract: We show that there are minimal graphs in R^{n+1} whose intersection with the portion of the horizontal hyperplane contained in the unit ball has any prescribed geometry, up to a small deformation. The proof hinges on the construction of minimal graphs that are almost flat but have small oscillations whose geometry we can control.


The paper is concerned with the graph of a function \(u\), \(\Sigma_u=\{(x,u(x)),\,\,x\in\mathbb{B}^n\}\), where \(\mathbb{B}^n\) is the unit ball in \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and \(u\) is the solution of the equation \[ \operatorname{div}\left(\frac{\nabla u}{\sqrt{1+|\nabla u|^2}}\right)=0\text{ in }\mathbb{B}^n. \] The graph \(\Sigma_u\) is a minimal hypersurface of \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\). The authors prove that there are such minimal graphs in \(\mathbb{R}^{n+1}\) for which the intersection with the set \(\Pi:=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{n+1},\,\,x_{n+1}=0,\,\,|x|<1\}\) has any prescribed geometry, up to a small deformation.











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