Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

J. Hirsch - C. Mooney - R. Tione

On the Lawson-Osserman conjecture

created by tione on 10 Aug 2023
modified on 31 Aug 2023

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Inserted: 10 aug 2023
Last Updated: 31 aug 2023

Year: 2023

ArXiv: 2308.04997 PDF

Abstract:

We prove that if $u : B_1 \subset \mathbb{R}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ is a Lipschitz critical point of the area functional with respect to outer variations, then $u$ is smooth. This solves a conjecture of Lawson and Osserman from 1977 in the planar case.