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Mass minimizing current in real homology class

It is a well-known results by Federer and Fleming that there exists at least one mass-minimizing normal current in every real homology class of a closed $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$. Their ...
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What is the current status on bad tangent cones at isolated singularities?

Let $M^8 \subset B^9 \setminus \{ 0 \} \subset \mathbf{R}^9$ be a properly embedded, stable minimal hypersurface. Suppose that $0 \in \overline{M}$ is an isolated singularity of the surface. Question. ...
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Tangent cones at zero and infinity to minimal surfaces

Let $n \geq 2$, and let $M^n \subset \mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ be a minimal surface with $0 \in M$ and finite ($n$-dimensional) area growth: $\operatorname{limsup}_{R \to \infty} R^{-n} \lVert M \cap B_R \...
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When is the least-area surface unique?

Let $M^{n-1}$ be a smooth closed manifold, embedded into the round sphere $\mathbf{S}^n$ via a regular map $\Phi$. Using tools from geometric measure theory, one can prove the existence of a $n$-...
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How to interpret this quote of Lin?

I recently stumbled across a quote of Fang-Hua Lin that I have trouble understanding [1, page 42]. It is a well-known fact that a weakly converging sequence of stationary integral currents may have a ...
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Area-minimising hypersurface with unbounded area growth

Let $T$ be an $n$-dimensional area-minimising hypersurface in $\mathbf{R}^{n+1}$. If $T$ has bounded area growth in the sense that there is a constant $C > 0$ so that $\mathcal{H}^n(T \cap B_R) \...
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How to shrink a square with minimal distortion?

$\newcommand{\CO}{\text{CO}_2}$ $\newcommand{\euc}{\mathfrak{e}}$ $\newcommand{\SO}{\text{SO}_2}$ $\newcommand{\al}{\alpha}$ $\newcommand{\dist}{\text{dist}}$ $\newcommand{\Lip}{\text{Lip}_{\text{inj}}...
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Is a locally invertible weak limit of injective maps injective almost everywhere?

This is a cross-post. Let $\Omega_1,\Omega_2 \subseteq \mathbb R^2$ be open, connected, bounded, with non-empty $C^1$ boundaries. Let $f_n:\bar\Omega_1 \to \bar\Omega_2$ be Lipschitz injective maps ...
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Continuous deformation of soap films

Let $S$ be a soap film bounded by an unknotted wireframe cycle (in $R^3$). Why is it the case that as we deform the wireframe in $R^3$, $S$ deforms continuously?
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Stability of minimal surfaces

Let $\Gamma$ be a prescribed $n-2$ dimensional set and assume $S \subset R^n$ is a minimal hyper-surface with respect to some smooth metric $g$ on $R^n$, and $\partial S= \Gamma$. Is $S$ is stable ...
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