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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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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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Is every area-minimizing cone a level set of a least-gradient function?

Let $\mathbf{C}^n \subset \mathbf{R}^{n+1}$ be a minimizing cone with an isolated singularity. One example, in a space of even dimension, i.e. if $\mathbf{R}^{n+1} = \mathbf{R}^{2m}$, is the Simons ...
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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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Defining minimality 'through deformations'

Let $U \subset \mathbf{R}^{n+k}$ be a bounded open set, and $T \in \mathbf{I}_n(U)$ be an $n$-dimensional integral rectifiable current. Say that $T$ is stationary through (homological) deformations if ...
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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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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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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) \...