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Solving the Plateau problem means to find the surface with minimal area among all surfaces with a given boundary. Part of the problem actually consists of giving a suitable definition to the notions of 'surface', 'area' and 'boundary'. In…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Edoardo Cavallotto

We consider area minimizing $m$-dimensional currents $\mathrm{mod}(p)$ in complete $C^2$ Riemannian manifolds $\Sigma$ of dimension $m+1$. For odd moduli we prove that, away from a closed rectifiable set of codimension $2$, the current in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Camillo De Lellis , Jonas Hirsch , Andrea Marchese , Luca Spolaor , Salvatore Stuvard

In this paper we prove a $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity result in dimension two for almost-minimizers of the constrained one-phase Alt-Caffarelli and the two-phase Alt-Caffarelli-Friedman functionals for an energy with variable coefficients. As…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-17 Luca Spolaor , Baptiste Trey , Bozhidar Velichkov

We prove existence of partitions of an open set $\Omega$ with a given number of phases, which minimize the sum of the fractional perimeters of all the phases, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In two dimensions we show that, if the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Annalisa Cesaroni , Matteo Novaga

Previous work of the authors established the rigorous limiting behavior of minimizing capillary surfaces to minimizers of the Alt--Caffarelli functional as the capillary angle tends to zero. We prove here that in this limit, the capillary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Otis Chodosh , Nick Edelen , Chao Li

We develop minimal slicing via capillary hypersurfaces to understand positive scalar curvature metric on manifolds with boundary. The method provides rigidity statements once the regularity of minimizers of capillary area functional holds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Dongyeong Ko , Xuan Yao

We show that for a generic $8$-dimensional Riemannian manifold with positive Ricci curvature, there exists a smooth minimal hypersurface. Without the curvature condition, we show that for a dense set of 8-dimensional Riemannian metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Otis Chodosh , Yevgeny Liokumovich , Luca Spolaor

In this paper we continue to study the connection among the area minimizing problem, certain area functional and the Dirichlet problem of minimal surface equations in a class of conformal cones with a similar motivation from \cite{GZ20}.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Qiang Gao , Hengyu Zhou

We investigate compactness phenomena involving free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in Riemannian manifolds of dimension less than eight. We provide natural geometric conditions that ensure strong one-sheeted graphical subsequential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Lucas Ambrozio , Alessandro Carlotto , Ben Sharp

The aim of this work is to study homogeneous stable solutions to the thin (or fractional) one-phase free boundary problem. The problem of classifying stable (or minimal) homogeneous solutions in dimensions $n\geq3$ is completely open. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

In continuing the study of harmonic mapping from 2-dimensional Riemannian simplicial complexes in order to construct minimal surfaces with singularity, we obtain an a-priori regularity result concerning the real analyticity of the free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-09-24 Chikako Mese , Sumio Yamada

For the Alt-Caffarelli problem, we study free boundary regularity of energy minimizers. In six dimensions, we show that free boundaries are analytic for generic boundary data. In general, we improve previous generic Hausdorff dimensions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xavier Fernández-Real , Hui Yu

We prove new boundary regularity results for minimizers to the one-phase Alt-Caffarelli functional (also known as Bernoulli free boundary problem) in the case of continuous and H\"older-continuous boundary data. As an application, we use…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Xavier Fernández-Real , Florian Gruen

We prove the multiplicity one theorem for min-max free boundary minimal hypersurfaces in compact manifolds with boundary of dimension between 3 and 7 for generic metrics. To approach this, we develop existence and regularity theory for free…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Ao Sun , Zhichao Wang , Xin Zhou

We show that directed minimal cones in (n+1)-dimensional Euclidean space which have at most one singularity are - besides the trivial cases: empty set, whole space - half spaces. Using blow-up techniques, this result can be used to get…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Oliver C. Schnuerer

We give partial boundary regularity for co-dimension one absolutely area-minimizing currents at points where the boundary consists of a sum of $C^{1,\alpha}$ submanifolds, possibly with multiplicity, meeting tangentially, given that the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Leobardo Rosales

Lawson-Osserman constructed three types of non-parametric minimal cones of high codimensions based on Hopf maps between spheres, which correspond to Lipschitz but non-differentiable solutions to the minimal surface equations, thereby making…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-04-10 Xiaowei Xu , Ling Yang , Yongsheng Zhang

In this paper, we study self-expanding solutions for mean curvature flows and their relationship to minimal cones in Euclidean space. In [18], Ilmanen proved the existence of self-expanding hypersurfaces with prescribed tangent cones at…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Qi Ding

Locally stable minimal hypersurface could have singularities in dimension $\geq 7$ in general, locally modeled on stable and area-minimizing cones in the Euclidean spaces. In this paper, we present different aspects of how these…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Zhihan Wang

Associated with isoparametric foliations of unit spheres, there are two classes of minimal surfaces $-$ minimal isoparametric hypersurfaces and focal submanifolds. By virtue of their rich structures, we find new series of minimizing cones.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Zizhou Tang , Yongsheng Zhang