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Existence of singular isoperimetric regions

Differential Geometry 2023-02-28 v3

Abstract

It is well known that isoperimetric regions in a smooth compact (n+1)(n+1)-manifold are smooth, up to a closed set of codimension at most 66. In this note, we first construct an 88-dimensional compact smooth manifold whose unique isoperimetric region with half volume that of the manifold exhibits two isolated singularities. And then, for n7n\geq 7, using Smale's construction of singular homological area minimizers for higher dimensions, we construct a Riemannian manifold such that the unique isoperimetric region of half volume, with singular set the submanifold §n7\S^{n-7}.

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@article{arxiv.2302.06910,
  title  = {Existence of singular isoperimetric regions},
  author = {Gongping Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.06910},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

We improve the result of the existence of singular isoperimetric regions to all high dimensions. All comments are welcome!

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