Analysis of singularities of area minimizing currents: a uniform height bound, estimates away from branch points of rapid decay, and uniqueness of tangent cones

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Authors: Brian Krummel, Neshan Wickramasekera 

Publication date: 20 April 2023

Abstract: This work, together with cite{KrumWica} and cite{KrumWicc}, forms a series of articles devoted to an analysis of interior singularities of locally area minimizing $n$-dimensional rectifiable currents $T$ of codimension $geq2$. In the present article we establish a new height estimate for $T$, which says that in a cylinder in the ambient space, the pointwise distance of $T$ to a union of non-intersecting planes is bounded from above, in the interior, emph{linearly} by the $L^2$ height excess of $T$ relative to the same union of planes, whenever appropriate smallness-of-excess conditions are satisfied. We use this estimate and techniques inspired by the works cite{Sim93}, cite{Wic14}, cite{KrumWic2} to establish a decay estimate for $T$ whenever, among other requirements, $T$ is significantly closer to a union of planes meeting along an $(n-2)$-dimensional subspace than to any single plane. Combined with cite[Theorem~1.1]{KrumWica}, this implies two main results: (a) $T$ has a unique tangent cone at ${mathcalH}^{n-2}$ a.e. point, and (b) the set of singular points of $T$ where $T$, upon scaling, does not decay emph{rapidly} to a plane is countably $(n-2)$-rectifiable. In particular, concerning emph{branch points} of $T$, the work here and in cite{KrumWica} establishes the fact that rapid decay to a unique tangent plane is the generic behaviour, in the sense that at ${mathcalH}^{n-2}$ a.e. branch point, $T$ decays to a unique tangent plane and has emph{planar frequency} (or the order of contact with the tangent plane) bounded below by $1+alpha$ for some fixed $alphain(0,1)$ depending only on $n$, $m$ and a mass upper bound for $T$; the planar frequency exists, is uniquely defined and is finite by the approximate monotonicity of the (intrinsic) planar frequency function introduced in cite{KrumWica}.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10)

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