On the Almgren minimality of the product of a paired calibrated set and a calibrated manifold of codimension 1
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Xiangyu Liang
Abstract
In this article, we prove the various minimality of the product of a 1-codimensional calibrated manifold and a paired calibrated set. This is motivated by the attempt to classify all possible singularities for Almgren minimal sets – Plateau’s problem in the setting of sets. The Almgren minimality was introduced by Almgren to modernize Plateau’s problem. It gives a very good description of local behavior for soap films. The natural question of whether the product of any two Almgren minimal sets is still minimal is still open, although it seems obvious in intuition. We prove the Almgren minimality for the product of two large classes of Almgren minimal sets – the class of 1-codimensional calibrated manifolds and the class of paired calibrated sets. The general idea is to properly combine different topological conditions (separation and spanning) under different homology groups, to set up a reasonable topological condition and prove the minimality for the product under this condition, which will imply the Almgren minimality. A main difficulty comes from the codimension – algebraic coherences such as multiplicity, separation and orientation do not exist anymore for codimensions larger than 1. An unexpectedly useful thing in the present paper is the flow of the calibrations. Its most important role among all is helping us to do the decomposition of a competitor with the help of the first projections along the flows.
Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
Award Identifier / Grant number: 11871090
Award Identifier / Grant number: 12271018
Funding statement: This work is supported by China’s Recruitment Program of Global Experts, School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang University, and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11871090, 12271018).
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- On the Hölder regularity of all extrema in Hilbert’s 19th Problem
- A partially overdetermined problem in domains with partial umbilical boundary in space forms
- On the existence of canonical multi-phase Brakke flows
- Concavity properties for solutions to p-Laplace equations with concave nonlinearities
- On the Almgren minimality of the product of a paired calibrated set and a calibrated manifold of codimension 1
- The Neumann and Dirichlet problems for the total variation flow in metric measure spaces
- No Lavrentiev gap for some double phase integrals
- Characterizations of the viscosity solution of a nonlocal and nonlinear equation induced by the fractional p-Laplace and the fractional p-convexity
- Properties of the free boundaries for the obstacle problem of the porous medium equations
- A generalized fractional Pohozaev identity and applications
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- On the Hölder regularity of all extrema in Hilbert’s 19th Problem
- A partially overdetermined problem in domains with partial umbilical boundary in space forms
- On the existence of canonical multi-phase Brakke flows
- Concavity properties for solutions to p-Laplace equations with concave nonlinearities
- On the Almgren minimality of the product of a paired calibrated set and a calibrated manifold of codimension 1
- The Neumann and Dirichlet problems for the total variation flow in metric measure spaces
- No Lavrentiev gap for some double phase integrals
- Characterizations of the viscosity solution of a nonlocal and nonlinear equation induced by the fractional p-Laplace and the fractional p-convexity
- Properties of the free boundaries for the obstacle problem of the porous medium equations
- A generalized fractional Pohozaev identity and applications
