Dynamical instability of minimal surfaces at flat singular points
Abstract
Suppose that a countably -rectifiable set is the support of a multiplicity-one stationary varifold in with a point admitting a flat tangent plane of density . We prove that, under a suitable assumption on the decay rate of the blow-ups of towards , there exists a non-constant Brakke flow starting with . This shows non-uniqueness of Brakke flow under these conditions, and suggests that the stability of a stationary varifold with respect to mean curvature flow may be used to exclude the presence of flat singularities.
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@article{arxiv.2008.13728,
title = {Dynamical instability of minimal surfaces at flat singular points},
author = {Salvatore Stuvard and Yoshihiro Tonegawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13728},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
31 pages, 3 figures. In v2 we discuss more extensively the range of applicability of our result in the context of the state of the art on the analysis of branched minimal surfaces. This is the final version, to appear on the Journal of Differential Geometry