Transverse singularities of minimal two-valued graphs in arbitrary codimension

DOI10.4310/JDG/1506650421MaRDI QIDQ1700302zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Spencer T. Becker-Kahn

Publication date 5 March 2018

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7660, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1506650421

zbMATH Keywords

minimal two-valued graphstransverse singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42)

Abstract: We prove some epsilon regularity results for n-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graphs. The main theorems imply uniqueness of tangent cones and regularity of the singular set in a neighbourhood of any point at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a pair of transversely intersecting multiplicity one n-dimensional planes, and in a neighbourhood of any point at which at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a union of four distinct multiplicity one n-dimensional half-planes that meet along an (n-1) - dimensional axis. The key ingredient is a new Excess Improvement Lemma obtained via a blow-up method (inspired by the work of L. Simon on the singularities of `multiplicity one' classes of minimal submanifolds) and which can be iterated unconditionally. We also show that any tangent cone to an n-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graph that is translation invariant along an (n-1) or (n-2)- dimensional subspace is indeed a cone of one of the two aforementioned forms, which yields a global decomposition result for the singular set

Review text

The author proves some epsilon regularity results for \(n\)-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graphs. The main theorems imply uniqueness of tangent cones and regularity of the singular set in a neighbourhood of any point at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a pair of transversely intersecting multiplicity-1 \(n\)-dimensional planes, and in a neighbourhood of any point at which at least one tangent cone is equal to a union of four distinct multiplicity-1 \(n\)-dimensional half-planes that meet along an \((n-1)\)-dimensional axis. The key ingredient is a new Excess Improvement Lemma obtained via a blow-up method and which can be iterated unconditionally. He also shows that any tangent cone to an \(n\)-dimensional minimal two-valued Lipschitz graph that is translation invariant along an \((n-1)\)- or \((n-2)\)-dimensional subspace is indeed a cone of one of the aforementioned two forms, which yields a global decomposition result for the singular set.

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