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It is shown that for any sufficiently regular even Minkowski valuation $\Phi$ which is homogeneous and intertwines rigid motions, and for any convex body $K$ in a smooth neighborhood of the unit ball, there exists a sequence of positive…

This is the second paper of a series of three on the regularity of higher codimension area minimizing integral currents. Here we perform the second main step in the analysis of the singularities, namely the construction of a center…

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Given a closed Riemannian manifold of dimenion less than eight, we prove a compactness result for the space of closed, embedded minimal hypersurfaces satisfying a volume bound and a uniform lower bound on the first eigenvalue of the…

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