preprint

Inserted: 26 feb 2025

Year: 2025

Abstract:

We construct a $3$ dimensional area minimizing current $T$ in $\mathbb{R}^5$ whose boundary contains a real analytic surface of multiplicity $2$ at which $T$ has a density $1$ essential boundary singularity with a flat tangent cone. This example shows that the regularity theory we developed with Reinaldo Resende in another paper, is dimensionally sharp. The construction of $T$ relies on the prescription of boundary data with non-trivial topology, which makes it an extremely flexible technique and gives rise to a wide family of singular examples. In order to understand the examples, we develop a boundary regularity theory for a class of area minimizing $m$-dimensional currents whose boundary consists of smooth $(m-1)$-dimensional surfaces with multiplicities meeting at an $(m-2)$-dimensional smooth submanifold.