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Regularity of minimal hypersurfaces with a common free boundary

Differential Geometry 2014-10-24 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let NN be a Riemannian manifold and consider a stationary union of three or more C1,μC^{1,\mu} hypersurfaces-with-boundary MkM_k in NN with a common boundary Γ\Gamma. We show that if NN is smooth, then Γ\Gamma is smooth and each MkM_k is smooth up to Γ\Gamma (real analytic in the case NN is real analytic). Consequently we strengthen a result of Wickramasekera to conclude that under the stronger hypothesis that VV is a stationary, stable, integral nn-varifold in an (n+1)(n+1)-dimensional, smooth (real analytic) Riemannian manifold such that the support of V\|V\| is nowhere locally the union of three or more smooth (real analytic) hypersurfaces-with-boundary meeting along a common boundary, the singular set of VV is empty if n=6n = 6, is discrete if n=7n = 7, and has Hausdorff dimension at most n7n-7 if n8n \geq 8.

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@article{arxiv.1309.6245,
  title  = {Regularity of minimal hypersurfaces with a common free boundary},
  author = {Brian Krummel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.6245},
  year   = {2014}
}

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12 pages