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On the regularity of area minimizing currents at boundaries with arbitrary multiplicity

Analysis of PDEs 2025-05-16 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

In this paper, we consider an area minimizing integral mm-current TT within a submanifold Σ\Sigma of Rm+n\mathbb{R}^{m+n}, taking a boundary Γ\Gamma with arbitrary multiplicity QN{0}Q \in \mathbb{N} \setminus \{0\}, where Γ\Gamma and Σ\Sigma are C3,κC^{3, \kappa}. We prove a sharp generalization of Allard's boundary regularity theorem to a higher multiplicity setting. Precisely, we prove that the set of density Q/2Q/2 singular boundary points of TT is Hm3\mathcal{H}^{m-3}-rectifiable. As a consequence, we show that the entire boundary regular set, without any assumptions on the density, is open and dense in Γ\Gamma which is also dimensionally sharp. Moreover, we prove that if pΓp \in \Gamma admits an open neighborhood in Γ\Gamma consisting of density Q/2Q/2 points with a tangent cone supported in a half mm-plane, then pp is regular. Furthermore, we show that if the convex barrier condition is satisfied-namely, if Γ\Gamma is a closed manifold that lies at the boundary of a uniformly convex set and Σ=Rm+n\Sigma = \mathbb{R}^{m+n}-then the entire boundary singular set is Hm3\mathcal{H}^{m-3}-rectifiable. Additionally, we investigate certain assumptions on Γ\Gamma that enable us to provide further information about the singular boundary set.

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@article{arxiv.2410.04566,
  title  = {On the regularity of area minimizing currents at boundaries with arbitrary multiplicity},
  author = {Ian Fleschler and Reinaldo Resende},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.04566},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

We corrected some typos, improved the exposition, and added a new section with some structural corollaries of our main results